. 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. scirpea stercoraria, a dung-basket ordung-cart. Varro, v. 139. vi. 680. Cato, R. R. x. 3. xi. 4. SCIRPICULA or small portable basket of plattedrush (scirpus), employed for a varietyof purposes, as for holding flowers(Prop. iv. 2. 40.) ; vegetables (LuciLap. Non.) ; as a fishing baske
. 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. scirpea stercoraria, a dung-basket ordung-cart. Varro, v. 139. vi. 680. Cato, R. R. x. 3. xi. 4. SCIRPICULA or small portable basket of plattedrush (scirpus), employed for a varietyof purposes, as for holding flowers(Prop. iv. 2. 40.) ; vegetables (LuciLap. Non.) ; as a fishing basket. (Plant,4 F 586 scissor. SCOTIA. The. Capt. iv. 2. 37. &c.)pie is from a Pom-peian painting, andrepresents a flower-basket placed on abench beside the garland makers (co-ronarii), engraved at p. 208. SCISSOR. A slave who cut upthe viands for the company at anentertainment. He was always ex-pected to carve with skill and science,and a certain sleight of hand ; but atthe banquet of the ridiculous Trimal-chio, the carver is made to flourishhis knife and dissect the food withsundry gesticulations, to the soundsand measures of a musical accom-paniment. Pet. Sat. 36. 6. SCOBFNA. A rasp, for scrapingwood, as used by carpenters ( xix. 19. Varro, L. L. vii. H. N. xi. 68.), and contradis-tinguished from lima, a file, which isenumerated amongst the implementsof smiths and metal workers. xix. 7. SCOPiE (icdWvvTpov, adpcaOpov).In the singular meaiis a thin twig;but the word is rarely used except inthe plural, when it signifies a birchbroom (Cato, R. R. 152. Plaut. 3. 27.), made up from a
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