School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . nted byAthena (Minerva), in the Eumenides ofAeschylus, where there is a poetical sketchof the process in the law courts. For an account of the anacrisis or ex-amination, which each archon underwentpreviously to entering on oflSce, see Ar-chon. ANAGNOSTES, slaves, whose duty itwas to read or repeat passages from booksduring an entertainment, and also at othertimes. ANATOCISMUS. [Fenus.] ANCHOR. [Angora.] ANCILE, the sacred shield carried bythe Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, accordingto tradition, in the palace of Numa
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . nted byAthena (Minerva), in the Eumenides ofAeschylus, where there is a poetical sketchof the process in the law courts. For an account of the anacrisis or ex-amination, which each archon underwentpreviously to entering on oflSce, see Ar-chon. ANAGNOSTES, slaves, whose duty itwas to read or repeat passages from booksduring an entertainment, and also at othertimes. ANATOCISMUS. [Fenus.] ANCHOR. [Angora.] ANCILE, the sacred shield carried bythe Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, accordingto tradition, in the palace of Numa ; and,as no human hand had brought it there, itwas concluded that it had been sent fromheaven. At the same time, the haruspicesdeclared that the Roman state would en-dure so long as this shield remained inRome. To secure its preservation in thecity, Numa ordered eleven other shields,exactly like it, to be made by the armourer,Mamurius Veturius, and twelve priests ofMai-s Gradivus were appointed under thedenomination of Salii, whose office it was. ANNONA. 27 AKCILIA CiREIED BY SALII. to preserve the twelve ancilia. They werekept in the temple of that divinity, on thePalatine mount, and were taken from itonly once a year, on the calends of feast of the god was then observedduring several days ; when the Salii carriedtheir shields about the city, singing songsin praise of Mars, Numa, and MamuriusVeturius, and at the same time performinga dance, which probably in some degreeresembled our morris dances, and in whichthey struck the shields with rods, so as tok^jep time with their voices, and with themovements of their dance. The precedingcut shows one of these rods, as representedon the tomb of a. pontifex salius, or chief ofthe Salii. ANCOIIA (ayKvpa), an anchor. The anchor used by the ancients was forthe most part made of iron, and its formresembled that of the modern anchor. Theshape of the two extremities illustrates theunco morsu and dente tenaci of Virgil. In-
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