. 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. entrance to Pompeiifrom Herculaneum. UMBRACULUM. Same asUmbella. UMBRiE. The shades or spiritsof departed beings in the netherworld. The ancients believed thatthe spirit of the human body de-scended into subterranean regions afterlife was extinct, and there retainedthe same figure and appearance ithad possess
. 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. entrance to Pompeiifrom Herculaneum. UMBRACULUM. Same asUmbella. UMBRiE. The shades or spiritsof departed beings in the netherworld. The ancients believed thatthe spirit of the human body de-scended into subterranean regions afterlife was extinct, and there retainedthe same figure and appearance ithad possessed during life, so as tobe recognizable to the relatives andfriends who followed it, but withoutany real corporeal substance ; or, inother words, that it was visible butimpalpable. Those who had passeda life of virtue wereremoved to Elysium,where they continuedin the enjoyment ofperpetual youth, par-taking the intercourseof such friends andrelatives as had ob-tained the same lot;those, on the contrary,who had lived in vicewere removed to Tar-tarus, where they woreout an existence of perpetual punish-ment. (Serv. ad Virg. JSn. iv. iii. 2. 9. Lucret. i. 120. iv. 7. 14.) Hence the poets andartists always invest the shades witha corporeal form, and with the same4x2. 70S UNCIA. URN A.
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