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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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m the composition of theirfigures, the arrangement, grouping,and position of the limbs and acces-sories, in the different points of viewall round; and thus to regulate theform of the frame upon which thefull-sized model of the finished workis to be executed from nature. Plin.H. N. xxxv. 45. Cic. Att xii. 41. PROP NIGRUM (vpomiyeiov).The mouth of a furnace (irvtyevs);properly a Greek term, for which theLatin one is Pr^furnium. Plin.Ep. ii. 17. 11. Vitruv. v. 11. 2. PROPUGNACULUM. In ageneral sense is applied to any struc-ture on land from which men fightfor the purposes of defence, as a for-tress, rampart, barricade, &c. ; andon shipboard, to the lofty towersraised above the deck, into which themarines (classiarii) ascended to dis-charge their missiles, and which gaveto the vessel an appearance very likethat of a fortress, as exhibited by theannexed example, from a marble bas-relief, affording a graphic illustrationof the words of Horace: inter altanavium, Amice, propugnacula. Hor.
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Epod. 1. 2. Schol. Vet. ad /. Plin.H. N. xxxii. 1. PRORA Owa). The prow, or PEORETA. PROSTOMIS. 531 forepart of a ship (Caes. Cic. Virg.Ovid. &c). Almost all the repre-sentations of ancient vessels, whetherin sculpture, painting, or mosaic, areextremely deficient in characteristicdetails, the artists confining themselvesto the expression of certain con-ventional generalities, rather thanattempting a faithful delineation bywhich the constructive principle wouldbe understood; so much so, thatwhere only fragments remain, as inthe preceding illustration, disputeshave arisen respecting the identity ofthe part, whether it was intended forthe head or stern. The example an-nexed, from an ancient painting pre-

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