. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . se arevariously represented in primitive Christianart ; e. g. the I/AMB standing on a mountain,from which they flow ; or they are personified,and symbolize the four Evangelists : the Gihonis St. Matthew; Pison, St. John ; Tigris,St. Mark ; and Euphrates, St. Luke. The fol-lowing lines in one instance a
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . se arevariously represented in primitive Christianart ; e. g. the I/AMB standing on a mountain,from which they flow ; or they are personified,and symbolize the four Evangelists : the Gihonis St. Matthew; Pison, St. John ; Tigris,St. Mark ; and Euphrates, St. Luke. The fol-lowing lines in one instance accompany such arepresentation on an engraved copper plate :— Fons paradisiacus per flumina quatuor exit ;Hec quadriga levis te Xpe per omnia CLASSIC art generally, rivers are personifiedas half-prostrate figures reclining upon an urn,and marked by certain attributes ; e. g. of theNile, a hippopotamus; of the Tiber, a wolfsuckling Romulus and Remus ; other rivers bythe flora or by certain cities of their banks, &c.(Consult Didron, Iconographie Chrit.; Mar-iigny, &c.) Roan. (1) A kind of leather much used forbookbinding ; it is of sheepskins tanned with ■■^J—T-^ 1 r rm ■J j . 1 1 J lIM . C 0 C C E 1 V i - 0 s E X c :■! ■ Jl J 1 1 1 1 1 Jl ii !! 1 ■ \ 1 1. Fig. 5S3. Robur. Prison at Rome. sumach. (2) Said ot a hay or sorel horsemarked with t;rey. Robigalia, R. Roman festivals held everyyear 011 tlie sixth of the calends of May (25thof April), in honour of tiie t;;oil Robigus, to pre-serve the wheat from mildew. Roborarium [ro/itr, strength). An enclosurewithin a wooden palisade. Bobur, R. The subterranean dungeon of aprison {carar), in which criminals were Fig. 588 the character of the rolnir is clearlyseen ; it is that of the prison of Ancus Martinsand Servius Tullius at Rome, of which someruins still remain. Rochet, Chr. (Lat. rochctum; Anglo-Saxonroc, a loose upper garment). A short surplicewithout sleeves, open at the sides ; imitatedfro
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