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LacusCurtius Educational Resource: a Selection of Articles from
A 19th-Century Classical Encyclopaedia
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
John Murray, London, 1875.
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Articles transcribed on my site
(major articles are in boldface)
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General Topic Areas | Entries | |
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Olea (olive)
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implements
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Aratrum (plow) • Capistrum • Crates(wicker matting) • Culter (various kinds of knives, part of a plow, etc.) • Jugum (yoke) • Ligo (type of hatchet) • Oscillum • Pala(spade) • Pedum (shepherd's crook) • Raster(hoe or rake) • Rutrum (also a hoe) • Stilus •Torculum (press) • Tribula (threshing drag) • Vannus (winnowing fan)
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land & property
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mining & metals
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surveying
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Architecture
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public buildings
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Amphitheatrum • Balneae (the baths) •Basilica • Bibliotheca (library) • Chalcidicum• Circus • Colossus • Columbarium •Crypta • Curia • Exedra • Horreum(storehouse) • Lesche • Maenianum •Odeum • Porticus • Templum • Theatrum •Velum
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elements
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Abaculus • Abacus • Acroterium • Antefixa• Apsis • Arcus (arch) • Astragalus •Atlantes or Telamones • Atticurges •Camara • Cardo (door hinge) • Caryatids •Cyma • Entasis • Epistylium • Fascia/Taenia• Fastigium • Fornix • Metope • Scalae(stairs) • Spira • Testudo • Tympanum • Walls: Murus and Paries
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materials
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monuments
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Arcus Triumphalis (triumphal arch) • Fons(fountain)
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the Roman house
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decorative art
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Daily Life
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Food, clothing, furnishings, entertainment, games, utensils, music, occupations, social customs, slavery, theatre, timekeeping, weights and measures: over 230 articles, some of them long and detailed, and many of them illustrated, are listed on
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Education
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Engineering
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roads & bridges
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tools & machinery
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waterworks
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Antlia • Aquaeductus • Aquarii • Cloaca(sewer) • Columbarium • Emissarium •Fistula (pipe) • Forma • Hydraula (hydraulic organ) • Librator • Pharos (lighthouse) •Piscina • Tympanum
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Implements
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timepieces
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Horologium (sundials, water clocks); see also Polus
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writing, instruments
& materials |
Atramentum (ink) • Calamus (reed pen) •Commentarius • Liber (book) • Nota(shorthand) • Stilus (stylus) • Tabulae(tablets)
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instruments of torture
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miscellaneous
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Abacus • Amussis • Ascia (adze) • Asilla •Buxum • Calathus (women's work-basket) •Calculi • Circinus (compass) • Colores(pigments) • Corbis (type of basket) •Cortina • Ferculum • Flabellum • Forma(mold, cobbler's last) • Fuscina (trident) •Fusus (mold, spindle) • Incus (anvil) • Libra(scales) • Malleus (hammer) • Norma(T‑square) • Regula (ruler) • Retis (net) •Trutina (steelyard)
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Law
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Over 260 articles, many of them long and detailed, are listed on
their own separate index page. | |
Medicine
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Political Life
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cast of characters
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government
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Adlecti • Admissionales • Aediles •Apparitores • Cancellarius • Censor •Comes • Comitia • Consul • Conventus •Curia • Dictator • Honores • Illustres •Interpres • Interrex, Interregnum • Judex •Legatus • Lictor • Praecones • Praefectus Annonae • Praefectus Praetorio • Praefectus Urbi • Praetor • Proconsul • Quaestor •Quinqueviri • Rex • Salarium • The Senate• Tabularium • Tribunus • Viaticum •Viator • Vicus
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public relations
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taxes and finance
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Vectigalia • Aerarium • Aes Equestre(includes Aes Hordearium and Aes Militare) • Aes Uxorium • Alimentarii Pueri et Puellae• Annona • Aurum Coronarium • Centesima(sales tax) • Congiarium (welfare payments) • Decumae (land rental fee) • Fiscus •Manceps • Portorium (customs duties) •Publicani • Quadragesima (excise tax on imports) • Quinquagesima (on the sale of slaves) • Scriptura (on grazing) • Tributum •Vicesima
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Religion
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Over 200 articles, some of them quite long and detailed,
are listed on their own separate index page (temples, priests, ritual, festivals, divination, magic etc.). | |
Society
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Trade & Commerce
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banking
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food industry
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money & coins
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professions
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shops, etc.
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Transportation
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on land
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postal system
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Warfare
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Some 80 articles, some of them quite long and detailed,
are listed on their own separate index page (the Roman army, ships, siege engines, weapons, etc.). |