. 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. NTUM. An ornamentattached to the dresses of females(Val. Max. v. 2. 1. Ov. A. Am. Juv. ii. 124.) ;consisting of one ormore strips of goldtissue, or some otherrichly coloured ma-terial, sewed on tothe skirts of thedrapery in parallellines, one above theother, like tucks(Isidor. Orig, 18.), as
. 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. NTUM. An ornamentattached to the dresses of females(Val. Max. v. 2. 1. Ov. A. Am. Juv. ii. 124.) ;consisting of one ormore strips of goldtissue, or some otherrichly coloured ma-terial, sewed on tothe skirts of thedrapery in parallellines, one above theother, like tucks(Isidor. Orig, 18.), as shownby the annexed ex-ample, representingone of the figures in the celebratedRoman fresco of the Vatican, whichgoes by the name of the Aldobrandinimarriage. This interpretation isfurther confirmed by a passage ofPliny ( vi. 39.), in which theword segmentum means a divisionformed by parallel circles — seg-menta mundi, quce nostri circulos ap-pellavere, Grceci parallelos. SEJUGXS. A chariot drawn bysix horses yoked abreast. Liv. SELIQIJASTRUM. An old-fashioned or antiquated kind of seat(Festus, s. v.), but of what precisecharacter is not ascertained. Varro,L. L. v. 128. Hygin. Astron. ii. 9. SELLA (hippos). A low seat ofthe characteristic kind which we un-. derstand by our terms stool or settle, in opposition to chair (cathedra);that is, without back or arms, such aswas commonly used by females ( 1. 46.) and artizans (Id. Cat ) engaged in sedentary illustration represents Penelopein a Pompeian painting ; and comparethe wood-cuts s, Calceolarius, Cal-culator. 2. Sella curulis (Si(ppos ayKvXSirovs).A curule seat; that is, a stool withbent legs, made to open and shut like
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