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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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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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cocks, with their backers, under theusual form of genii, from a terra-cottalamp in the collection at Mostyn Hall. LANIUS (tcpeovpyos). One whobuys cattle to slaughter, and sell themeat; a butcher, or meat salesman(Varro, R. R. ii. 5. 11, Phaedr. iii.4.); whence transferred in a moregeneral sense to an executioner(Plaut. Pseud, i. 3. 98.) ; and to onewho buys and sells cattle for slaugh-tering at the sacrifice. (Varro, 1. c.) LANTERN A. See Laterna. LANX. A large circular dishrmade of silver or other metals, andoften richly em-bossed; parti- lililllFTcularly em-ployed at greatentertainments (Cic. Att. vi. 1. Pet.Sat xxviii. 8. Id, xxxi. 10.) for 368 LANX. LAPIDARIUS. holding meat or fruit ; and at thesacrifice. (Virg. Georg. ii. 194.)The example is copied from one oftwelve figures, representing slavesbringing in various dishes at an en-tertainment, in a set of ancient frescopaintings discovered near the churchof St. John of Lateran at Rome. Itexhibits a boar brought whole to tablein on

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