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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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artificial composition, used for in-laying patterns in a mosaic pavementof the class termed sectile (Vitruv. TRILIX. TRIPUS. 689 vii. 1. 4. Pavimentum, 2.), as shownby the border round the four sides ofthe illustration, which represents apiece of pavement on the threshold ofthe principal entrance to one of thehouses at Pompeii. 2. A musical instrument of trian-gular form, with all its strings of thesame thickness, but of unequal lengths(Plat. Rep. 399. c. Soph. Fragm.361. Athen. iv. 77. Ib. 80.), andwhich, it is to be inferred from thefigure on the left side of the illustra-tion, copied from a Pompeian paint-ing, was carried on the shoulderwhen played. The word does notoccur in the present sense in any ofthe extant Latin authors; nor is itclear whether they, or the Greeks,
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made use of the same term to desig-nate our triangle, which seems pro-bable, since that instrument was notunknown to them, as is proved bythe figure on the right side of theengraving, copied from a marblebas-relief formerly belonging to theGiustiniani family at Rome, uponwhich a party of several femalesare represented playing upon diffe-rent musical instruments — the tri-angle here introduced, the rattletermed crotalum, the tympanum, ortambourine, and the double pipes, ortibice pares. TRILIX (Tpifiiros). Twilled ofthree threads thick ; that is, in whicheach thread of the weft (subtemen) ispassed in the weaving over one andthen under three threads of the warp(stamen), which requires three sets ofleashes (licia), and produces a ribbedpattern. Mart. xiv. 143. TRILORIS. A hybrid word, half Greek and half Latin, whichmeans, literally, furnished with threethongs ; but it is used to designate agarment brocaded with a triple set ofornamental stripes or other pattern,,termed paragundce, as e

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