. 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. he plough (Colu-! mell. ii. 2. 25. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49.\ § 2.) ; also a tract of the same cha-j racter left between the ridges thatare made with the hoe. Columell. 2. 5. In the technical language ofland-surveyors (agrimensores), thebreadth of a field, as opposed to striga,its length. Auct. E. Agrar.
. 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. he plough (Colu-! mell. ii. 2. 25. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49.\ § 2.) ; also a tract of the same cha-j racter left between the ridges thatare made with the hoe. Columell. 2. 5. In the technical language ofland-surveyors (agrimensores), thebreadth of a field, as opposed to striga,its length. Auct. E. Agrar. pp. 198. ed. Goes. SCANDULA or SCINDULA.(oXt5a|). A shingle; i. e. a smallboard about a foot long, employed inearly times instead of tiles, for cover-ing the roof of a house. Shinglescontinued to be commonly used atRome until the period of the warwith Pyrrhus. Plin. H. N. xvi. i. 22. SC ANDULARIS. Made orcovered with shingles (scandulai).Apul. Met. iii. p. 54. SCANDULARIUS. One whosebusiness consists in laying a roofwith shingles (scandulce). 50. 6. 6. SCANSORIA MACHINA(a,Kpo€ariK7] (xqxarri). A scaffoldingfor working upon at any elevationabove the ground. Vitruv. x. 1. (<TKd(p7i). A skiff, cutter,i long-boat, or jolly-boat, carried on.
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