. 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. sition somewhat,though not exactly, analogous tothat of tutor amongst us ; but resem-bled more closely the tutore ofmodern Italy, who is generally an abbate? and accompanies his chargeabout upon all occasions, even whenhe goes to pay a visit, precisely likethe pedagogue of ancient Greece andItaly. The figure
. 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. sition somewhat,though not exactly, analogous tothat of tutor amongst us ; but resem-bled more closely the tutore ofmodern Italy, who is generally an abbate? and accompanies his chargeabout upon all occasions, even whenhe goes to pay a visit, precisely likethe pedagogue of ancient Greece andItaly. The figure introduced at s. Manica, 1. is believed to beintended for the pcedagogus of one ofNiobes children; the style of the 462 PJENULA. PAGUS. head and drapery are evidentlymeant to characterize a foreigner. P^NULA ((paLvoKrjs). An arti-cle of the outer apparel belonging tothe class of garments termed vesti-menta clausa, or close dresses. Itwas a round frock, with a hood, andopening at the top for the head, butotherwise entirely closed down thefront; or sometimes with a slit reach-ing half way up from the bottom ofthe skirt in front, so that the flapsmight be taken up and turned Werthe shoulder, in the manner shownby the right-hand figure in the an-nexed wood-cut: but in all cases. without sleeves, whence those whowore it are said to be entangled, con-strained, and, as it were, enclosed intheir pcenulce (irretiti; adstricti etvelut inclusi. Cic. Mil. 20. , de Or at. 39.). It was wornover the tunic ; particularly on jour-neys, and in the city during very coldor wet weather (Quint, vi. 3. Alex. Sev. 27.); occasion-ally by women (Quint, viii. 3. 54.) ;and was either made of cloth with avery thick and long nap (Mart. ), or of leather (Id. xiv. 130.).The illustrations exhibit a front andback view of the article, from statuesengraved in the treatise of Bartholini,de Pcenula. 2. A particular part of the forcingpump invented by Ctesibius of Alex-andria, and
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