. 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. Pers. Sat. iii. 11. Auson. Epist. viL50. 6. A pandean pipe, which wasmade of several stalks ofthe reed or cane, of un-equal length and bore,fastened together and ce-mented with wax; hencetermed arundo cerata(Ovid. Met. xi. 154. 32.), as shown by the examplefrom a Pompeian marble. 7. A rod employed i
. 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. Pers. Sat. iii. 11. Auson. Epist. viL50. 6. A pandean pipe, which wasmade of several stalks ofthe reed or cane, of un-equal length and bore,fastened together and ce-mented with wax; hencetermed arundo cerata(Ovid. Met. xi. 154. 32.), as shown by the examplefrom a Pompeian marble. 7. A rod employed in weaving,for the purpose of separating thethreads of the warp{stamen) before the leashes (licid) wereattached, and passedalternately in and oat,before and behindeach alternate thread,in order to separatethe whole into twodistinct parcels, which,when decussated,formed a shed for the passage ofthe shuttle, as represented in thecentre of the loom here engraved,which is copied from the VaticanVirgil. Ovid. Met. vi. 55., andconsult Tela, Texo. 8. A long cane with a sponge, orother appropriate material, affixed tothe end of it, which thus served as abroom for sweeping and cleansingthe ceilings of a room. Plaut. 3. 23. Compare Mart. Ep. and the broom in the hands ofthe
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