. 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. figure, or knelt and sat upon theirhams, as in the annexed example,which represents an Egyptian per-former, from the tombs of Beni Has-san. SAMNITES. A class of gladi- SANDALIGERULiE. S ARAB ALL A. 571. ators (Cic. Sext. 64.), who wore thesame kind of armour as the Samnitesoldiers, viz. aclose helmet withwing
. 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. figure, or knelt and sat upon theirhams, as in the annexed example,which represents an Egyptian per-former, from the tombs of Beni Has-san. SAMNITES. A class of gladi- SANDALIGERULiE. S ARAB ALL A. 571. ators (Cic. Sext. 64.), who wore thesame kind of armour as the Samnitesoldiers, viz. aclose helmet withwings (pi?ince) atthe sides (Varro,L. L. v. 142.), ashield of the kindcalled scutum, agreave (ocrea) onthe left leg ( 40.) ; and apiece of armouror armlet (mani-ca, Juv. vi. 256.)on the right arm,which was not protected by the of these particulars are distinctlyvisible in the annexed figure, from abas-relief in stucco, on a tomb atPompeii, which from that circum-stance is believed to represent a gla-diator of the class in question. Itwill, however, be observed that boththe legs are furnished with greaves,instead of the left one only, as ex-pressly mentioned by Livy and Juve-nal (11. cc.) ; but since the original hasentirely perished, in consequence ofthe fragile nature of the material inwhich it was formed; and had, more-over, suffered from time before itwas first discovered, it will not beunreasonable to assume that Mazois,the artist to whom we are indebtedfor the
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