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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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merated in the Classed Index. Vi-truv. vi. 7. 2. Ulp. Dig. 33. 7. 12. LANIPENDIA. The mistressof a household, or the superintendantin an establishmentwhere the businessof spinning andweaving wool wasconducted. Sheweighed and gaveout to her slaves orworkwomen (qua-sillaricd) a certainquantity of woolwhich each onewas expected toconsume in herwork per day. (Juv. vi. 476. Schol.Vet. ad I. Paul. Dig, 24. 1. 38.) Theillustration shows a female weighingthe wool in a pair of scales, from abas-relief in the Forum of Nerva atRome, on which various other opera-tions belonging to this branch of in-dustrial labour are represented. LANIPENDIUM. A room inwhich wool was weighed out to theworkwomen for their daily task, asdescribed under the preceding word.Inscript. ap Romanelli. Topogr. Na-politan. ii. p. 273. LANISTA (/jLovofjLaxoTpdtyos). Aperson whose occupation consisted intraining gladiators to fight, and teach-ing them their art. He was some-
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times the proprietor of a band ofthese men, whom he let out upon hire to any person desirous of exhi-biting a gladiatorial show ; but morecommonly merely the trainer andfencing master appointed to instructthe companies belonging to the state.(Cic. Rose. Am. 40. Id. Att. i. 16.Juv. vi. 215. Serv. ad Virg. jEn. iv.242.) He is always represented onworks of art in a tunic, and unarmed,but with a wand (virga), which heused as a token of authority; asshown by the annexed example,which represents a lanista giving di-rections to a pair of gladiators, froma mosaic of the Villa Albani. 2. Avium Lanista. One who trainedand backed game cocks, quails, andother pugnacious birds to fight; a fa-vourite amusement both of the Greeksand Romans. (Columell. viii. 2. 5.)The illustration represents a pair of

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