Smith, William: A smaller dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities (London, 1871)

CUESORES.

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CYMBALUM.

them, and in an engagement placed them- sented on medals. It was enriched with
selves in front. Chariots were not much gold and ivory. The utmost skill of the
used by the Romans. The most splendid painter and the sculptor was employed to
kind were the quadrigae, in which the Ro- enhance its beauty and splendour. The
man generals and emperors rode when they j triumphal car had in general no pole, the
triumphed. The body of the triumphal ear i horses being led by men who were stationed
was cylindrical, as we often see it repre- i at their heads.

Marble Chariot in the Vatican.

CURSORES, slaves whose duty it was to
run before the carriage of their masters. They
first came into fashion in the first century of
the Christian aera. The word cursored was
also applied to all slaves whom their masters
emploved in carrying letters, messages, &c.

CURSUS. [Circus.]

CURULIS SELLA. [Sella Curulis.]

CUSTODES. [Comitia.]

CUSTODES, CUSTODIAE. [Castra.]

CUSTOS URBIS. [Praeff.ctus Urbi.]

CYATHUS (ftOofloc), a Greek and Roman
iquid measure, containing one-twelfth of the

Cyathi. (Museo Borbunux), vol. iv. pi. 12.)

sextarius, or -0825 of a pint English. The
form of the cyathus used at banquets was
that of a small ladle, by means of which the
wine was conveyed into the drinking-cups
from the large vessel [crater) in which it was
mixed. Two of these cyathi are represented
in the preceding woodcut. The cyathus was
also the name given to a cup holding the same
quantity as the measure. Hence Horace says
[Carm. iii. 8. 13) :

M Sump. Mitmnns, cyathos arruci
Sospitis centum."

CYCLAS (xvicAas), a circular robe worn by
women, to the bottom of which a border was
affixed, inlaid with gold. It appears to have
been usually made of some thin material.

CYMA («0|u.a), in architecture, an ogee, a
wave-shaped moulding, consisting of two
curves, the one concave and the other con-
vex. There were two forms, the cyma recta,
which was concave above, and convex below,
thus, 21, and the cyma reversa, which was
convex above and concave below, thus ?T.
The diminutive eymalium or cumatium iKvfui-
tiov) is also used, and is indeed the more
common name.

CYMBA (icufi|3r)) is derived from ■aV/3oc, a
hollow, and is employed to signify any small
kind of boat used on lakes, rivers, &c. It
appears to have been much the same as the
acatium and seapha.

CYMBALUJI (Kv/AjSaAof), a musical ;nstru-
ment, in the shape of two half globes, which
1 were held one in each hand by the performer,