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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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e they wereput by. 3. (Vitruv. vi. 6. 2.) The press-room, or building in which the torcu-lar was worked. Same as TORCULARIUM (\rive£v). Apress-room; which comprises thewhole fabric where oil is made, andin which the mill, presses, reservoirs,and vessels used in the process, wereset up or contained. (Cato, R.R.xii. xiii. xviii. Columell, xii. 18. 3.)The same name was also given tothe building in which the wine-press No, was placed, though that is otherwisedesignated by a special term of itsown (yinariurri); but it was con-structed upon the same general plan,and contained similar machinery andconveniences to those employed inthe manufacture of oil, differing onlyin some minor details, adapted for thedifferent nature of the article to beproduced. This may be collected inpart from the passages of Cato andColumella where such structures aredescribed; but it is fully confirmedby an excavation made on the site ofthe ancient Stabiae, during the latterpart of the last century, which ex-I. C E
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posed to view several different press-rooms, some for wine, and others foroil, all of which were arranged upon ageneral principle, closely correspond- ing one with the other. The illustra-tion annexed exhibits the ground-plan of one of these buildings, usedfor making oil, with a section of4 B 2 676 TORCULARIUM. TOREUMA. its underground appurtenances, thewhole agreeing in most of the essen-tial features with the particularsdescribed by Cato ; and thus, whilstit materially assists a correct under-standing of that author, will convey acomplete idea of the method and pro-cess adopted by the Romans in themanufacture of this important articleof their agricultural produce. No. Lrepresents the ground-floor of theroom, which has an open gangwaycompletely through it, and containsone mill for bruising the fruit to apair of presses, one mill being amplysufficient for supplying two presses,as the process of bruising is effectedwith much greater celerity than thatof squeezing. No. 2. is a section o

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