. 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. ter, Bacchus, and Athena, carrying a flat basket (canum, or canistrum, Festus, ) on her head, in which were deposited the sacred cake, chaplet, frankincense, and knife employed to slay the victim. Young womenare frequently represented in thiscapacity by the ancient artists, andsimilarly described by class
. 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. ter, Bacchus, and Athena, carrying a flat basket (canum, or canistrum, Festus, ) on her head, in which were deposited the sacred cake, chaplet, frankincense, and knife employed to slay the victim. Young womenare frequently represented in thiscapacity by the ancient artists, andsimilarly described by classic authors,with their arms raised up, and in theexact attitude of the figure here en-graved, from a statue at Verr. ii. 4. 3. Plin. H. 4. n. 7. Compare Ovid, 711—713. CANICULA. Pers. Sat. iii. as Canis 2. CANIS. A chain ; but whether ofany particular description is doubtful;though probably not, as the expressionmay have originated in a play uponthe words catella, catellus. ii. 6. 37. Becker, Gallus, p. 2. The worst throw upon the dice ;i. e. when all aces were turned Aug. 71. CANISTELLUM. Diminu-tive of Canistrum. CANISTRUM and CANISTER(k&vsov, Kavrjs). A large, flat, openbasket, whence termed patulum ( Met. viii. 675.), and latum (Id. 650.), made of wicker-work (Pal-lad, xii. 17.), and without handles, soas to be adapted for carrying on thehead, as shown by the figure in theopposite column; particularly em-ployed as a bread-basket (Virg. 180.), in reference to which usethe example here introduced, from aPompeian painting, is carried byCeres, and filled with ears of corn. CANO. To sing generally ; butalso to sound, or play upon, any mu-sical instrument (Cic. Div. ii. 59.) ;as lituo canere (Cic. Div. i. 17.),to sound the lituus (see wood-cuts. Liticen); cornu canere (Varro, v. 91.), to sound the horn (seeCornicen) ; tibiis canere (Quint,i. 10. 14.), to play upon the pipes(Tibicen);
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