School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . horse-soldiers, whowere accustomed to precede an army onmarch, in order to choose a suitable placefor the camp, and to make the necessaryprovisions for the army. They do not ap-pear to have been merely scouts, like thespeculatores. ANTEFIXA, terra-cottas, which ex-hibited various ornamental designs, andwere used in architecture to cover thefrieze {zophorus) of the entablature. These terra-cottas do not appear to have been used among the Greeks, but wereprobably Etruscan in their origin, and werethence taken for the decoration of Romanbuildings
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . horse-soldiers, whowere accustomed to precede an army onmarch, in order to choose a suitable placefor the camp, and to make the necessaryprovisions for the army. They do not ap-pear to have been merely scouts, like thespeculatores. ANTEFIXA, terra-cottas, which ex-hibited various ornamental designs, andwere used in architecture to cover thefrieze {zophorus) of the entablature. These terra-cottas do not appear to have been used among the Greeks, but wereprobably Etruscan in their origin, and werethence taken for the decoration of Romanbuildings. The name antefixa is evidently derivedfrom the circumstance that they Avere fixedbefore the buildings which they , the censor, complained that the Ro-mans of his time began to despise orna-ments of this description, and to prefer themarble friezes of Athens and Corinth. Therising taste which Cato deplored may ac-count for the superior beauty of the ante-fixa preserved in the British Museum, wliichwere discovered at Rome. mMMM^ ANTEFIXA REPRESENTIN-G ATHENA SnPERINI ENt :.<THE CONSTRUCTION OP THE SHIP ARGO. ANTENNA, (Kepala, wepas),the yard ofa ship. The ships of the ancients had asingle mast in the middle, and a squaresail, to raise and support which a transversepole, or yard (antenna), was extended acrossthe mast, not far from the top. To the twoextremities of the yard (^cornua, aKpoK(paia),ropes (funes) were attached, which passedover the top of the mast, and thus sup-ported the yard: these ropes were calledceruchi. Sometimes the yard had two, andat other times four ceruchi, as in the an-nexed cut. c 3 so ANTIDOSIS.
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