Identifier: illustratedcompa00rich (find matches)
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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theisland in the Tiber, designed to re-present the ship that brought the ser-pent from Epidaurus to Rome, affordanother instance of the same practicein the masonry forming the quartersof the vessel, on which a bust of iEscu-lapius is carved for a tutela, and maybe seen, when the waters are low,under the garden-wall of the conventof Saint Bartholomew, or in an en-graving of Gamucci (Antichita diRoma, p. 174. Venez. 1588.). TUTULATUS. In a generalsense, wearing the hair dressed in aconical form (Tutulus, 1) ; or thepriests cap of the same name (Tu-tulus, 2.), whence, in a specialsense, a priest who wore it. Varro,L. L. vii. 44. Ennius ap. Varro, /. c. TUMULUS. A particular styleof head-dress, originally confined to the Flaminica, orwife of the FlamenDialis ( Festus, s.v.),but subsequentlyadopted by otherfemales. (Inscript.ap. Grut. 579. 5.)It was formed bypiling up the hairwith the aid of apurple riban, to a considerableheight on the top of the head, so asto have the appearance of a goal
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(meta, Varro, L. L. vii. 44. Festus,s. v.), as in the illustration, froma painting of Herculaneum. Thisfashion is also alluded to in theexpressions, suggestum coma (Stat.Sylv. i. 2. 114.); and tot compagibusaltum JEdijicat caput (Juv. vi. 502.). 2. A high cap, made of wool, inthe form of a cone or goal (meta,Serv. ad Virg.Mn. ii. 683.),but withoutthe olivepoint (apex)at the top,which wasworn by someorders of f f^J^T^the priest- —<^ hood (Servius, I.e.); like the an-nexed example, from a bronze medal,representing the Genius of Augustusperforming sacrifice. TYMPANISTA (rvfivavurrfis).A man who plays the tympanum, ortambourine (Apul. Deo Socrat. p.685.), as exhibited by the annexedfigure, from a mosaic by Dioscorides

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