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LACIN1AE.
220
LATINITAS.
have been commonly used in the army. In
the time of Cicero it was not usually worn in
the city, but it soon afterwards became quite
common at Home. The lacerna was some-
times thrown over the head for the purpose
of concealment; but a cucuUus or cowl was
generally used for that purpose, which ap-
pears to have been frequently attached to the
lacerna, and to have formed a part of the
dress.
LACINIAE, the angular extremities of the
toga, one of which was brought round over
the left shoulder. It was generally tucked
into the girdle, but sometimes was allowed to
hang down loose.
LAC'OxICUM. [Balneum.]
LACUNAR. [Domus.]
LACUS. [Fons.]
LAENA (xAaira), a woollen cloak, the
cloth of which was twice the ordinary thick-
ness, shaggy upon both sides, and worn
over the pallium or the toga for the sake of
warmth. In later times the laena seems, to
a certain extent, to have been worn as a sub-
stitute for the toga.
LAMPADEPHURIA (AafATraSrj^opia), torch-
bearing, LamI'ADEDROMIA (Aay.i7raS>)5po^u'a),
torch-race, and often simply Lampas (Aan-
irds), was a game common throughout Greece.
At Athens we know of five celebrations of
this game : one to Prometheus at the Prome-
theia, a second to Athena at the Panathenaea,
a third to Hephaestos at the Hephaesteia, a
fourth to Pan, and a fifth to the Thracian
Artemis or Bendis. The first three are of
unknown antiquity; the fourth was intro-
duced soon after the battle of Marathon ; the
last in the time of Socrates. The race was
usually run on foot, horses being first used in
the time of Socrates; sometimes also at night.
The preparation for it was a principal branch
of the Gymnasiarchia, so much so indeed in
later times, that the Lampadarchia (Aap.7ra5ap-
vi'a) seems to have been pretty much equi-
valent to the Gymnasiarchia. The gymna-
siavch had to provide the lampas, which was
a candlestick with a kind of shield set at the
bottom of the socket, so as to shelter the
tiame of the candle ; as is seen in the fol-
lowing woodcut, taken from a coin. He had
Lumpas. (I'Yom a Ccm.1
also to provide for the training of the run-
ners, which was of no slight consequence, for
the race was evidently a severe one, with
other expenses, which on the whole were
very heavy, so that Isaeus classes this office
with the vhoregia and trierarchia, and reck-
ons that it had cost him 12 minae.
LAMPAS. [Lampadephoiua.]
LAXCEA. [Hasta.]
LAXISTA. [Gladiatores.]
LAXX, a large dish, made of silver or some
other metal, and sometimes embossed, used
at splendid entertainments to hold meat or
fruit; and consequently at sacrifices and fu-
neral banquets.
LAPHRIA (Adi/ipta), an annual festival,
celebrated at Patrae in Achaia, in honour of
Artemis, surnamed Laphria.
LAPICIDIXAE. [Lautumiae.]
LAQUKAR. [Domrs, p. 144, &.]
LAQUEATOHES. [Gladiatores.]
LAQUEUS, a rope, was used to signify the
punishment of death by strangling. This
mode of execution was never performed in
public, but only in prison and generally in
the Tullianum. Hence we find the words
career and laqueus frequently joined together.
Persons convicted of treason were most fre-
quently put to death by strangling, as for in-
stance the Catilinarian conspirators [lagueo
gidam fregere).
LABJLrIUM, a place in the inner part of
a Roman house, which was dedicated to the
Lares, and in which their images were kept
and worshipped. It seems to have been cus-
tomary for religious Romans in the morning,
immediately after the}- rose, to perform their
prayers in the lararium.
LAREXTALIA, sometimes written LA-
REXTIXALIA and LAURKXTALIA, a Ro-
man festival in honour of Acca Larentia, the
wife of Faustulus and the nurse of Romulus
and Remus. It was celebrated in December,
on the 10th before the calends of January.
LARGITIO. [Ambitus.]
LATER (irAivflos), a brick. The Romans
distinguished between those bricks which
were merely dried by the sun and air (1 uteres
crudi), and those which were burnt in the
kiln [cacti or coctiles). They preferred for
brick making clay which was cither whitish
or decidedly red. Pliny calls the brickfield
lateraria, and to make bricks latercs ditccrc,
corresponding to the Greek 7i-A<.V0ou? e'A/ceii' or
epveiv.
LATICLAVIL [Claws.]
LATIXAE FERIAE. [Feriae.]
LATIXITAS, LATIUM, JUS LATIL All
these expressions are used to signify a certain
status intermediate between that of cives and
peregrini. Before the passing of the Lex
220
LATINITAS.
have been commonly used in the army. In
the time of Cicero it was not usually worn in
the city, but it soon afterwards became quite
common at Home. The lacerna was some-
times thrown over the head for the purpose
of concealment; but a cucuUus or cowl was
generally used for that purpose, which ap-
pears to have been frequently attached to the
lacerna, and to have formed a part of the
dress.
LACINIAE, the angular extremities of the
toga, one of which was brought round over
the left shoulder. It was generally tucked
into the girdle, but sometimes was allowed to
hang down loose.
LAC'OxICUM. [Balneum.]
LACUNAR. [Domus.]
LACUS. [Fons.]
LAENA (xAaira), a woollen cloak, the
cloth of which was twice the ordinary thick-
ness, shaggy upon both sides, and worn
over the pallium or the toga for the sake of
warmth. In later times the laena seems, to
a certain extent, to have been worn as a sub-
stitute for the toga.
LAMPADEPHURIA (AafATraSrj^opia), torch-
bearing, LamI'ADEDROMIA (Aay.i7raS>)5po^u'a),
torch-race, and often simply Lampas (Aan-
irds), was a game common throughout Greece.
At Athens we know of five celebrations of
this game : one to Prometheus at the Prome-
theia, a second to Athena at the Panathenaea,
a third to Hephaestos at the Hephaesteia, a
fourth to Pan, and a fifth to the Thracian
Artemis or Bendis. The first three are of
unknown antiquity; the fourth was intro-
duced soon after the battle of Marathon ; the
last in the time of Socrates. The race was
usually run on foot, horses being first used in
the time of Socrates; sometimes also at night.
The preparation for it was a principal branch
of the Gymnasiarchia, so much so indeed in
later times, that the Lampadarchia (Aap.7ra5ap-
vi'a) seems to have been pretty much equi-
valent to the Gymnasiarchia. The gymna-
siavch had to provide the lampas, which was
a candlestick with a kind of shield set at the
bottom of the socket, so as to shelter the
tiame of the candle ; as is seen in the fol-
lowing woodcut, taken from a coin. He had
Lumpas. (I'Yom a Ccm.1
also to provide for the training of the run-
ners, which was of no slight consequence, for
the race was evidently a severe one, with
other expenses, which on the whole were
very heavy, so that Isaeus classes this office
with the vhoregia and trierarchia, and reck-
ons that it had cost him 12 minae.
LAMPAS. [Lampadephoiua.]
LAXCEA. [Hasta.]
LAXISTA. [Gladiatores.]
LAXX, a large dish, made of silver or some
other metal, and sometimes embossed, used
at splendid entertainments to hold meat or
fruit; and consequently at sacrifices and fu-
neral banquets.
LAPHRIA (Adi/ipta), an annual festival,
celebrated at Patrae in Achaia, in honour of
Artemis, surnamed Laphria.
LAPICIDIXAE. [Lautumiae.]
LAQUKAR. [Domrs, p. 144, &.]
LAQUEATOHES. [Gladiatores.]
LAQUEUS, a rope, was used to signify the
punishment of death by strangling. This
mode of execution was never performed in
public, but only in prison and generally in
the Tullianum. Hence we find the words
career and laqueus frequently joined together.
Persons convicted of treason were most fre-
quently put to death by strangling, as for in-
stance the Catilinarian conspirators [lagueo
gidam fregere).
LABJLrIUM, a place in the inner part of
a Roman house, which was dedicated to the
Lares, and in which their images were kept
and worshipped. It seems to have been cus-
tomary for religious Romans in the morning,
immediately after the}- rose, to perform their
prayers in the lararium.
LAREXTALIA, sometimes written LA-
REXTIXALIA and LAURKXTALIA, a Ro-
man festival in honour of Acca Larentia, the
wife of Faustulus and the nurse of Romulus
and Remus. It was celebrated in December,
on the 10th before the calends of January.
LARGITIO. [Ambitus.]
LATER (irAivflos), a brick. The Romans
distinguished between those bricks which
were merely dried by the sun and air (1 uteres
crudi), and those which were burnt in the
kiln [cacti or coctiles). They preferred for
brick making clay which was cither whitish
or decidedly red. Pliny calls the brickfield
lateraria, and to make bricks latercs ditccrc,
corresponding to the Greek 7i-A<.V0ou? e'A/ceii' or
epveiv.
LATICLAVIL [Claws.]
LATIXAE FERIAE. [Feriae.]
LATIXITAS, LATIUM, JUS LATIL All
these expressions are used to signify a certain
status intermediate between that of cives and
peregrini. Before the passing of the Lex