. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. triumphal procession of Constantine ;or upon cattle conducted to the sacri-fice, of which the Arch of Titus atRome affords several specimens. Tre-bell. Gallien. 8. DORSUARIUS and DOSSUA-RIUS. A beast of burden ; a pack-. horse (Varro, ii. 10.), or ass(Id. ii. 6.), as in the example, fromthe triumphal ar
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. triumphal procession of Constantine ;or upon cattle conducted to the sacri-fice, of which the Arch of Titus atRome affords several specimens. Tre-bell. Gallien. 8. DORSUARIUS and DOSSUA-RIUS. A beast of burden ; a pack-. horse (Varro, ii. 10.), or ass(Id. ii. 6.), as in the example, fromthe triumphal arch of Constantine. DORYPHORUS (topvfdpos). Ahalberdier; the name given to theJ soldiers who formed the body-guardi of the Persian kings, from the weapon; they carried ; but the word does not! occur in Latin, excepting as thej name of a celebrated statue by Poly-| cletes (Cic. Brut, 86. Plin. H. xxxiv. 19. § 2.), representing one of! these guards, or of a soldier armedlike them. DRACHMA (tyax/*4). _ Adrachm; the principal silver coin ofthe Greek currency, as the denariuswas of the Roman, and of whichthere were two standards of differentweights and value — the Attic andiEginetan. The Attic drachm, represented bythe annexed wood-cut, from an ori-ginal in the British Museum, of theactual size, was mostly current m thenorth of Greece, the maritime states,
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