. 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. ge circular dishrmade of silver or other metals, andoften richly em-bossed; parti- lililllFTcularly em-ployed at greatentertainments (Cic. Att. vi. 1. xxviii. 8. Id, xxxi. 10.) for 368 LANX. LAPIDARIUS. holding meat or fruit ; and at thesacrifice. (Virg. Georg. ii. 194.)The example is copied from one
. 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. ge circular dishrmade of silver or other metals, andoften richly em-bossed; parti- lililllFTcularly em-ployed at greatentertainments (Cic. Att. vi. 1. xxviii. 8. Id, xxxi. 10.) for 368 LANX. LAPIDARIUS. holding meat or fruit ; and at thesacrifice. (Virg. Georg. ii. 194.)The example is copied from one oftwelve figures, representing slavesbringing in various dishes at an en-tertainment, in a set of ancient frescopaintings discovered near the churchof St. John of Lateran at Rome. Itexhibits a boar brought whole to tablein one of these dishes, precisely asmentioned by Horace (Sat. ii. 4. 41.)in a passage which would scarcelyobtain belief, were it not confirmedby some other authority, such as thathere produced. 2. Lanx quadrata (nival-). Asquare trencher, or platter, originallyof wood, but subsequently of morecostly materials ; used as a plate toeat from, or as a salver for bringingfruit and other eatables to table; asshown by the annexed example,from a mutilated Pompeian painting,. which represents a slave bringing ina basket of fruit upon a square tren-cher to a party of three persons re-clining at table, supposed to be in-tended for Scipio, Sophonisba, andMasinissa. Horn. Od. i. 141. Aristoph. Plut. 990. Ulp. 2. 20. Paul. ib. 6. 1. 6. 3. (raXavrov, irXdaTiyQ. The dishor scale of a balance (libra); sotermed from its shallow circular form,which resembles that of the dish re-presented in the first illustration tothis article. The annexed exampleexhibits a balance with the scales orlances suspended by chains, from an original found at Pompeii. Cic.
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