. 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. s now lost, nor has theprocess actually adopted by themever been thoroughly ascertained ;although the Count Caylus imaginedthat he &ad discovered the secret,and wrote an express treatise on thesubj ect. They appear to have pursuedseveral methods, and to have con-ducted the operation in very differentways : ei
. 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. s now lost, nor has theprocess actually adopted by themever been thoroughly ascertained ;although the Count Caylus imaginedthat he &ad discovered the secret,and wrote an express treatise on thesubj ect. They appear to have pursuedseveral methods, and to have con-ducted the operation in very differentways : either with colours mixedwith wax, laid on with a dry brush,and then burnt in with a cautery(cauteriurn); or by marking out thedrawing with a hot etching iron {oes-trum) upon ivory, in which processwax does not appear to have beenused at all; or, lastly, by liquifyingthe wax with which the colours weremixed, so that the brush was dippedinto the liquid compound, and thecolour laid on in a fluid state, as it iswith water colours, but subsequentlysmoothed and blended by the opera-tion of heat. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 39. Vitruv. vii. 9. Ov. Fast. iii. 831. EN COMBOMA (tyicS/n^a).Properly, an article of Greek attire;viz. a sort of apron tied round thebody in a knot (whence the name. arose), and worn by slaves to keepthe tunic clean(Longus. ii. 33.),by young girls(Varro, ap. v. p. 542.), andalso on the comicstage. (Jul. Pol-lux, iv. 18.) Bothof these latter usesare exemplified bythe annexed figureof a young female,playing on thedouble pipes, froma marble bas-relief,representing a scene from some play. ENDROMIS. A large blanket,or wrapper of coarse woollen cloth,in which it wascustomary to en-velope the body inorder to preventthe chance of tak-ing cold after theviolent exertions ofgymnastic exerci-ses. (Juv. iii. iv. 19. 126.) It isfrequently depict-ed in scenes il-lustrative of lifein the gymnasium,upon figures in re-pose, similar to the one in the an-nexed e
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