. 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. serted (Plin. H. N. Vitruv. x. 9. 2.) ;whence also ap-plied to the axleitself (Soph. and Varro,R. R. xx. xxi. ofthe axles whichsuspend the wheels(orbes) in an oilmill (trapetum). The illustration re-presents an ancient wheel, preservedin the museum of Prince Esterhazyat Vienna. The second an
. 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. serted (Plin. H. N. Vitruv. x. 9. 2.) ;whence also ap-plied to the axleitself (Soph. and Varro,R. R. xx. xxi. ofthe axles whichsuspend the wheels(orbes) in an oilmill (trapetum). The illustration re-presents an ancient wheel, preservedin the museum of Prince Esterhazyat Vienna. The second and third ofthe Greek names bracketed implythat the principal dry measures of theGreeks and Romans (x0! and mo-dius) were of the same form, if theydiffered in capacity. 2. A box, bucket, or scoop, in theshape of a modius affixed to the outercircumference of a water wheel,which fills itself with water, and dis-charges the contents into a receiveras the wheel revolves. (Vitruv. ) Sometimes wooden boxes wereemployed for the purpose, at othersjars ; and the Chinese make use of ajoint of bamboo. See the illustrations. Rota aquaria; which will explaintheir application and object. 3. A particular part of the cata-pulta and ballista (Vitruv. x. 12. 1) ;supposed to be a box or cap, which. MODI US MOLA. 427 contained the rope; but as the exactmanner in which these machineswere constructed is involved in doubtand obscurity, an authorized defini-tion is not attainable. 4. (w&s, Hero de Spirit, p. 180.).The box or cylinder in -which thepiston and sucker of a forcing pumpacts (Vitruv. x. 7.) ; marked bb re-spectively on the wood-cuts s. Cte-sibica Machina and Sipho. 5. (xolVLK7l)- A surgical instru-ment, like a trepan, for cutting outparts of bones, consisting of a cylin-drical borer, with serrated viii. 3. 6. A small drinking goblet. 34. 2. 37. MOmUS and MODTUM. Theprincipal dry measure of the Romanscontaining sixteen , sextarii, or the —m p— sixth part of the p
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