. 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. art. iv. 78.) ; made in acylindrical form, like a joint of thefennel giant (vdpd-n£), which mayitself have been used for the purpose, but doubtless rn suggested the j name, and au- *~thorised the application of it to anobject of corresponding form, thoughj made of other materials; as the an-I nexed example, f
. 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. art. iv. 78.) ; made in acylindrical form, like a joint of thefennel giant (vdpd-n£), which mayitself have been used for the purpose, but doubtless rn suggested the j name, and au- *~thorised the application of it to anobject of corresponding form, thoughj made of other materials; as the an-I nexed example, from an original ofivory found at Pompeii. NASITERNA. A vessel which| appears to have been very similar inuse and character to our ivatering-pot,I employed by the ancients for wateringj the race-course; in gardens and vine-| yards, for watering the ground toI lay the dust before a house, and simi-lar purposes. (Festus s. v. Cato, H. x. 2. Plaut. Stick, ii. 3. 28.) It isI formed from nasns, a nose or spout,j with an augmentative termination,like cisterna from cista, thus meaningi a vessel with a very long spout, andnot with three spouts or three handles,! as some have imagined. NASSA (fcn/uos, Kvprri). A iceel,i or basket for snaring fish, made ofwicker work with a wide funnel-. shaped mouth, long body, and narrowthroat, constructed, as our own are,in such a manner that the fish couldenter it but not get out again. Fes-tus, s. v. Oppian. Hal. iii. 85. andj 341. Sil. Ital. v. 48., where the formand manner of making it is describedat length, and corresponding exactlywith the annexed figure, composedfrom two Roman mosaics, in both ofwhich it is represented lying half-buried amongst sedges in a shallowpiece of water. NASSITERNA. See Nasiterna. NATATIO. A swimming-bath,both in the open air and under cover(Celsus, iii. 27. 1. Ccel. Aurel. 1.) ; consequently of a higher tern- 440 NAUCLERUS. NAVICULARIUS. perature and of larger dimensionsthan the plunging-bath, baptisterium.
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