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Title: 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
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he word is so written by Lucilius(Sat. v. 28. Gerlach.), who more-over states that it was made of wood. SCUTRISCini. SCYPHUS. 589 SCUTRISCUM. Probably adiminutive of the last word. Cato,B. JR. x. and xi. SCUTULA (o-kvtqAt)). A woodenroller or cylinder placed under ob-jects of great weight for the purposeof assisting in moving them. Cses.B. C. iii. 40. 2. (Diminutive of Scutra.) Asmall dish or platter, of which no-thing decisive has been ascertained ;but supposed from other analogies ofthe word to have possessed a dia-mond or lozenge shape. Mart. xi.31. 19. 3. A segment of marble, or otherartificial material, cut into the shapeof a diamond or rhomb, and used for inlaying floors or pavements, like thethree white patterns in the centredivision of the annexed example,which represents a portion of theancient mosaic pavement now re-maining in the church of SantaCroce in Gerusalemme, at Rome. Vi-truv. vii. 1. 4. Pallad. i. 9. 5. 4. A check, or diamond figurewoven in the pattern of a piece of
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cloth, like the border on the draperyof the annexed figure from a fictilevase. Plin. H. N. viii. 74. ^ SCUTULATUS. Applied todrapery; ornamented with a patternin checks, as shown by the precedingwood-cut. Juv. ii. 97. Plin. H. N.viii. 73. 2. Applied to animals, as horses;it corresponds with our term flea-bitten.Pallad. iv. 13. 4. SCUTULUM (Cic N. D. i. 29.).Diminutive of Scutum. SCUTUM Opeos). The largeoblong shield generally adopted bythe Roman infantry instead of theround buckler (clipeus), at the periodwhen the military ceased to servewithout pay. It was about 4 feetlong by 2± wide; formed out ofboards, like a door (whence the

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