. 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. and plan of a Roman smelting-fur-nace discovered near Wandsford inNorthamptonshire. (Artis, Duro-briv. pi. 25.) A is the smelting pot,below which the fire was kindled, asshown in the illustration to Forna-cula ; B, the slag lying about as itran from the furnace; c, the channelwhich conveyed the metal into the
. 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. and plan of a Roman smelting-fur-nace discovered near Wandsford inNorthamptonshire. (Artis, Duro-briv. pi. 25.) A is the smelting pot,below which the fire was kindled, asshown in the illustration to Forna-cula ; B, the slag lying about as itran from the furnace; c, the channelwhich conveyed the metal into themoulds, d. 2. A blacksmiths forge (Virg. 630. Juv. Sat. xiv. 118.), which,as shown by the annexed illustration,from a sepulchral marble at Rome,. resembled in all respects those of ourown days. The centre figure holdsthe iron on the anvil (incus) by apair of pincers (forceps) ; under theanvil is a vessel with water, forplunging the heated iron and instru-ments into; the fire is seen in theback ground; and the bellows (follis),with a man working them, behindthe left-hand figure. 3. A hearth or fire-place in privatehouses, for the purpose of warming an apartment (Hor. Ep. i. 11. Sat. i. 5. 81. Suet. Vitell. 8.), orfor cooking, such as in early timeswas constructed in the atrium, andwhich consisted of a mere stonehearth raised above the level of thefloor, and upon which the logs offirewood were placed, but without aflue to carry away the smoke. 4. It still remains a doubtful point,whether caminus ever means a chim-ney in our sense of that word, thatis, a flue intended to carry off smokethrough the different stories of ahouse, and discharge it above theroof; as the passages which mightbe cited for that purpose are not atall
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