. 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. Div. i. 13. 2. In the human race, which hasno pastern joint, the talus is a smallbone under the base of the tibia, justabove the os-calcis, which lies ratherbackward in the foot, and is nowcalled the astragalus in anatomy(Celsus, viii. 1. and 7.) ; but poetsapply the term to the projecting baseof the t
. 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. Div. i. 13. 2. In the human race, which hasno pastern joint, the talus is a smallbone under the base of the tibia, justabove the os-calcis, which lies ratherbackward in the foot, and is nowcalled the astragalus in anatomy(Celsus, viii. 1. and 7.) ; but poetsapply the term to the projecting baseof the tibia, our ankle. Ov. Met. TAPES, TAPETE, or TAPE-TUM (tol-ktis). Baize, or drugget oflong napped wool (Plin. H. N. ), used as tapestry for the walls ofa room, carpeting for floors, coverletsfor couches, chairs, or beds (, ii. 3. 54. Mart. xiv. 147. ix. 325., and wood-cuts s. Au-4 N 2 644 TEGILLUM. LiEA and Solium 2.), and as capari-sons for horses, of richly-dyed coloursinstead of skin. (Sil. Ital. xvii. Met. x. 224. Virg. Mn. , and wood-cuts s. Stragulum.) TEGILLUM. A very coarse andcommon kind of hood or cowl (Fes-tus, s. v.), which was used by fisher-men, rustics, shepherds, &c, to covertheir heads and shoulders in wet. weather. (Plaut. Bud. ii. 7. 18. Var-ro ap. Non. p. 179.) The illus-tration represents a young fishermanasleep in his hood, from a statue foundat Pompeii; and characteristicallyexhibits the form of the object de-signated by the term tegillum, whichis a diminutive of tegulum, meaningliterally a small roof ; but it is madeof better materials than usually em-ployed for the purpose, if the accountof Festus (I. c.) be true, that it wasordinarily composed of rushes. TEGULA (tcepafjios). A flatroofing-tile, usually made of bakedclay, but in very sumptuous buildingsof marble or bronze, andsometimes gilt. (Plaut |lj flMil. ii. 6. 24. Cic. Terent. \1 //Ov. Plin. Liv,) The two || ®Jfcsides were made to slope \
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