A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ne use, however, of them,for the purpose of keeping watch and ward in thefortified cities of Greece, deserves mention. (Thu-cyd. iv. 135 ; Aristoph. Aves, 843, 1159 ; loc.) A guard (0i/Aa|) being stationed in everytower, a TrepiVoAos (see p. 463, a) walked to andfro on the portion of the wall between two was his duty to carry the bell, which he receivedfrom the guard at one tower, to deliver it to theguard at the next tower, and then to return, so thatthe bell by passing from hand to hand made thecircuit of the city. By this ar
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ne use, however, of them,for the purpose of keeping watch and ward in thefortified cities of Greece, deserves mention. (Thu-cyd. iv. 135 ; Aristoph. Aves, 843, 1159 ; loc.) A guard (0i/Aa|) being stationed in everytower, a TrepiVoAos (see p. 463, a) walked to andfro on the portion of the wall between two was his duty to carry the bell, which he receivedfrom the guard at one tower, to deliver it to theguard at the next tower, and then to return, so thatthe bell by passing from hand to hand made thecircuit of the city. By this arrangement it wasdiscovered if any guard was absent from his post,or did not answer to the bell in consequence ofbeing asleep. Hence to prove or try a person wascalled KwSwui^iu (AeYian, xvi. 25) ; to per-form the office of patrole was naocavocpopziv. The forms of bells were various in proportion tothe multiplicity of their applications. In the Mu-seum at Naples are some of the form which wecall bell-shaped ; others are more like a Chinese. gong. The bell, fig. 1 in the annexed woodcut, isa simple disk of bell-metal ; it is represented in apainting as hanging from the branch of a tree.(Bartoli, Sep. Ant. 13.) Figure 2 represents a bellof the same form, but with a circular hole in thecentre, and a clapper attached to it by a is in the Museum at Naples, as well as thebell, fig. 3, which in form is exactly like those stillcommonly used in Italy to be attached to the necksof sheep, goats, and oxen. Fig. 4 is represented 1134 TITHENIDIA. TOGA. on one of Sir W. Hamiltons vases (i. 43) as car-ried by a man in the garb of Pan, and probablyfor the purpose of lustration. (Theocrit. ii. 36 ;Schol. in loc.) Fig. 5 is a bell, or rather a collec-tion of twelve bells suspended in a frame, which ispreserved in the Antiquarium at Munich. Thisjingling instrument, as well as that represented byfig. 6 (from Bartoli, Luc. Sep. ii. 23), may havebeen used at sacrifices, in Bacchanalian
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