. 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. manner in which the ancient car(currus) was driven by its charioteer,whose posture was always a standingand not a sitting one, as shown bythe annexed example from a terra-cotta lamp. Thus Martyns trans-lation of the above passage —to sit ROTA. RURRICA. 559. victorious over the rapid wheels —is not only incorr
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. 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. manner in which the ancient car(currus) was driven by its charioteer, whose posture was always a standingand not a sitting one, as shown bythe annexed example from a terra-cotta lamp. Thus Martyns trans-lation of the above passage —to sit ROTA. RURRICA. 559. victorious over the rapid wheels —is not only incorrect as regards La-tinity, but suggests an image at directvariance with the words of the poet. 3. The wheel of torture; an instru-ment of punishment employed by theGreeks, by which the victim, beingbound to thespokes, wasthen whirledround with arapid rotationtill sensationor life becameextinct, as ex-hibited by theannexed ex-ample from a Greek bas-relief repre-senting Ixion, who was condemnedto the wheel by Jupiter for his in-gratitude and other overt acts. Cic.Tusc. v. 9. Apul. Met. iii. p. 48.Tibul. i. 3. 74. 4. Rota aquaria. A water wheel, for raising water from a flowingstream, and which works itself by theaction of the current (Lucret. v.517.). Wheels of this nature, ofvery simple construction, but agreeingexactly with the description of Vi-truvius (x. 5.), are still employed inmany countries, of which the follow-ing example, representing a waterwheel commonly met with in China,