. 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. machine, which was further weightedby the driver, who sat in a sort offrame or chair placed on it. (Varro, i. 51. 2.) The preceding ac-count from Varro describes so ex-actly a contrivance still used inEgypt for the same purpose, calledthe Noreg, and represented inthe annexed illustration, as to leaveno d
. 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. machine, which was further weightedby the driver, who sat in a sort offrame or chair placed on it. (Varro, i. 51. 2.) The preceding ac-count from Varro describes so ex-actly a contrivance still used inEgypt for the same purpose, calledthe Noreg, and represented inthe annexed illustration, as to leaveno doubt respecting the identity ofthe original one. PLOXEMUM, PLOXEMUS,PLOXTMUS, or PLOX body part of a two-wheeled car-riage or gig (cisium), which wasmade or covered with leather. (Ca-. toli 97. 6. Festus s. v.) Accordingto Quintilian (i. 5. 8.), the term was a provincial one, which Catulluslearnt amongst the districts borderingon the river Po ; an opinion in somemeasure corroborated by the annexedengraving, from an ancient sepulchralmarble now preserved in the Museumat Verona, which closely resembles avery peculiar description of one-horsecarriage, still commonly used in thesame parts of the Lombardo-Venetiankingdom, where it goes by the nameof a Padovanino.* PLUMJE. The scales in a cors-let or cuirass, when formed in imi-
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