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LacusCurtius Educational Resource:  a Selection of Articles from

A 19th-Century Classical Encyclopaedia

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
John Murray, London, 1875.

This single volume, of 1294 pages in rather fine print set in two columns and amounting to well over a million words, is a treasure trove of information on the ancient world, and was for many years a standard reference work, carried thru several British and American editions from the first in 1842 to the last in 1890‑91 with relatively few alterations. It shares one of its selling points with the Web: many illustrations. They are woodcuts, but often rather good ones, and sometimes clearer than photographs could be.

Like any encyclopedia of course, Smith's Dictionary should be used with caution: it is a secondary source, the field covered is very extensive, many authors are involved, and even when it was published could not for each article have represented the latest work. Also, the authors were classicists rather than technical experts in architecture and engineering, so that articles on these latter subjects are sometimes sorely deficient (for example, the article on bridges). Thus it was never absolutely first-rate, and I need not add that for scholarly work, especially where 150 years of archaeological investigation have by now intervened, it is superseded. Furthermore, the gentle reader is reminded that our authors were chiefly Englishmen, so the work tends to focus a bit more on matters important to the study of Roman Britain.

Finally, these articles need to be read not only with a grain of salt, but sometimes lightly and with a few grains of common sense as well. For example, in describing the objects or activities of Aug life, the authors will tell us that ancient doors were wide enough for people to walk thru and that their thresholds and lintels were meant to support weight, and so forth; some things don't change much, and the younger student especially will need to look at things simply and naturally, just as she does with the world around us in our own day.

But as an educational text, in view of the paucity of solid material (and the relatively large amount of nonsense) on the Web, almost all of what Dr. Smith and his collaborators have to say remains valuable: I eventually expect to put all the Roman articles online, mostly as background material for other webpages. With exceptions, I do not intend to put any of the Greek material online.

Having launched his career with this dictionary as a young man of 29, Dr. Smith went on to produce many valuable reference works in the fields of antiquity and early Christianity, for which he was knighted at the close of his life. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica includes a good biographical sketch of him.

I've modernized and simplified some of the punctuation, but have otherwise transcribed the text faithfully, and included the woodcuts. At the same time, I've tried to link the references to Latin texts or other sites on the Web, as appropriate; and have sometimes further illustrated the text with my own photographs. For citation purposes, the pagination of the original is indicated in the sourcecode as local links.

In the best medieval manner, I occasionally comment the text in a footnote, or when I manage to express myself succinctly, as Javascript annotations that you can read by placing your cursor over the little bullets,º or sometimes over the images.

About those bullets:

• Blue: relax. Blue bullets stay on the page (notes, unit conversions, etc.).
• Green: go. Green bullets go somewhere, in another window.
• Red: stop and think! Red bullets open another page in the same window. If you don't want to lose your page and have to reload it later, you should do a "New Window with this Link".

Finally, a word on the references given in the Dictionary. Just as we in the early 21c still find this work useful although published in 1875, Smith's Dictionary regularly refers to 17th- and 18th‑century works. Some are superseded, but others remain quite valid: it would be arrogance on our part, to say nothing of stupidity, to believe that our own generation invented everything. Finding these works is unfortunately a different matter; many of them are sitting unconsulted in the Rare Book Rooms of university libraries: I hope that librarians are giving thought to putting them online.

The citation of inscriptions is a special case. The collections of Gruter (1602) and Orelli (1828‑1856) are the most frequently referenced, but are now absorbed into the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. I do hope eventually to provide the CIL equivalents; for now, I can at least point the serious student — should there be any other kind? — to a Gruter‑CIL concordance at the CIL site itself.

The 1875 text of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is in the public domain, of course. My own photographs though, and technically my own notes as well as any reworked woodcuts (as when I've color-coded them or turned them into gifmaps), are not in the public domain. If you have doubts as to copyright, just ask. 

Articles transcribed on my site
(major articles are in boldface)

A reminder also that articles continue to be added from time to time:
the What's New Page is here.

On the other hand, that's a sign that eventually the dictionary will be complete; you will be able to browse it letter by letter. For now, just the letters not greyed out:

A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M 
N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • X • Z

General Topic Areas		Entries
Agriculture & Mining	crops	Olea (olive)
	implements	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)
	land & property	Ager • Fundus • Hortus (garden) • Villicus  See also the law of land and property.
	mining & metals	Metallum • Aes • Argentum • Aurum •Electrum • Orichalcum
	surveying	Agrimensores • Pomoerium
Architecture	public buildings	Amphitheatrum • Balneae (the baths) •Basilica • Bibliotheca (library) • Chalcidicum• Circus • Colossus • Columbarium •Crypta • Curia • Exedra • Horreum(storehouse) • Lesche • Maenianum •Odeum • Porticus • Templum • Theatrum •Velum
	elements	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
	materials	Later (brick) • Tegula (tile)
	monuments	Arcus Triumphalis (triumphal arch) • Fons(fountain)
	the Roman house	Domus • Apotheca • Cella • Focus (hearth, brazier) • Pergula • Triclinium (dining room)
	decorative art	Abacus (panel) • Emblema (inlay)
Daily Life	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 their own separate index page.
Education	Athenaeum • Paedagogus
Engineering	roads & bridges	Angiportus • Callis • Mansio • Milliare (the Roman milestone) • Pons • Stratores • Viae• Tympanum
	tools & machinery	Machinae • Cochlea (screw press, pump, revolving door) • Dolabra (chisel) • Fistuca(pipe) • Fornax (kiln, furnace) • Securis (axe) • Serra (saw)
	waterworks	Antlia • Aquaeductus • Aquarii • Cloaca(sewer) • Columbarium • Emissarium •Fistula (pipe) • Forma • Hydraula (hydraulic organ) • Librator • Pharos (lighthouse) •Piscina • Tympanum
Implements	timepieces	Horologium (sundials, water clocks); see also Polus
	writing, instruments & materials	Atramentum (ink) • Calamus (reed pen) •Commentarius • Liber (book) • Nota(shorthand) • Stilus (stylus) • Tabulae(tablets)
	instruments of torture	Crux (cross) • Furca • Tympanum
	miscellaneous	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)
Law	Over 260 articles, many of them long and detailed, are listed on their own separate index page.
Medicine	Medicina • Medicus (the doctor or practitioner) • Chirurgia(surgery) • Aliptae • Archiater
Political Life	cast of characters	Advocatus • Delator and Quadruplatores(paid informers) • Orator • Ordo
	government	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
	public relations	Apotheosis • Augustus • Caesar • Fasces •Rostra • Sceptrum • Suggestus • Thronus •Tribunal
	taxes and finance	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
Religion	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	Ephebus • Familia • Gens • Hospitium (hospitality) • Libertus(freedmen) • Nobiles • Patricii (patricians) • Plebs See also the law articles index.
Trade & Commerce	banking	Argentarii • Chirographum • Fenus(interest on loans) • Mensarii • Negotiatores
	food industry	Macellum (market) • Mola (mill) • Pistor(baker) • Salinae (saltworks)
	money & coins	Moneta • As • Cistophorus • Denarius •Libella • Sestertius
	professions	Fabri
	shops, etc.	Caupona (tavern) • Taberna (shop)
Transportation	on land	Antyx • Arcera • Carpentum • Carruca •Cisium • Clitellae (saddlebags) • Covinus •Currus (chariot) • Ephippium (saddle) •Esseda • Frenum (bridle) • Harmamaxa •Lectica (litter) • Pegma (float) • Petorritum •Pilentum • Plaustrum • Rheda • Sarracum •Thensae
	postal system	Angaria
Warfare	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.).

Guerra ao Terror 2.0: versao Obama - Opinião Eugene Robinson

Eugene Robinson

Opinion Writer

The end of the ‘war on terror’

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By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Blogs, May 27 

President Obama wisely avoided the phrase “mission accomplished” in his major speech last weekabout the “war on terror,” but columnists aren’t obliged to be so circumspect: It is time to declare victory and get on with our lives.

Obama could never say this, of course, because there will surely be future terrorist attacks that kill Americans both at home and abroad. But he came close when he said that “the scale of this threat closely resembles the types of attacks we faced before 9/11” — in other words, before we rashly declared war on a tactic rather than an enemy.

“We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us,” Obama said. “We must make decisions based not on fear, but on hard-earned wisdom. And that begins with understanding the current threat that we face.”

Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, the organization that flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is decimated and on the run. But franchise groups, some bearing the al-Qaeda name, in Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Mali pose a lesser but real threat to the United States. Meanwhile, the Arab Spring empowered — and armed to the teeth — ad hoc groups across the region that share al-Qaeda’s zeal for Islamist jihad and can mount deadly local attacks, such as in Benghazi. And individuals here in the “homeland” — still, to my ear, an off-key word — can commit mayhem in the name of jihad, as we saw in Boston.

“Lethal yet less capable al-Qaeda affiliates. Threats to diplomatic facilities and businesses abroad. Homegrown extremists. This is the future of terrorism,” the president told his audience at the National Defense University in Washington. “If dealt with smartly and proportionally, these threats need not rise to the level that we saw on the eve of 9/11.”

This attempt to enumerate real and potential enemies was the heart of Obama’s speech, in my view. A “war on terror” must endure forever because, as Obama said, “we will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of some human beings, nor stamp out every danger to our open society.” A war against identifiable foes, however, can be won — and, for the most part, has been.

He could have gone further in talking about the nature of the threat from “radicalized” individuals. What distinguishes their crimes from other senseless acts of violence? Put another way, what would the reaction have been if Adam Lanza, as he murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, had yelled, “Allahu akbar”?

Was there really any meaningful connection between the bloody Boston rampage and international jihadism? It seems likely that an al-Qaeda Web site taught the Boston bombers how to build their pressure-cooker bombs, but what about the alienation they obviously felt? What about their mental health? Was jihad anything more than a label, an affinity-group logo like the Red Sox insignia on a baseball cap?

Obama has been saying for years that he intends to leave behind a sound legal and administrative framework for counterterrorism operations against groups or individuals who pose a threat. The long, dense, well-written speech he delivered Thursday was a start. Rather, it was a restart; upon taking office in 2009 he immediately banned torture and secret detentions overseas, but he let pass his best opportunity to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

He announced that he will resume transferring some prisoners, especially to Yemen. But despite Obama’s impassioned plea, I think it is highly unlikely that Congress will remove the many restrictions that keep the president from just shutting the place down. Some detainees may still be there when Obama leaves office in 2017.

The president gave the clearest explanation to date of how he decides to use pilotless drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists overseas. As I’ve written before, the age of drone warfare is here whether we like it or not. I really don’t like it at all. I realize, however, that any president faced with a choice between risking American lives and dispatching a few robots is going to send in the drones.

But armed drones are weapons of assassination, not of war as we know it. They are designed to snuff out a specific human being and those unfortunately nearby, halfway around the globe, like a thunderbolt from a cloudless sky. No amount of judicial or congressional oversight should make us feel great about that.

Read more from Eugene Robinson’s archive, follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his updates on Facebook. You can also join him Tuesdays at 1 p.m. for a live Q&A.

Read more in Opinions:

David Ignatius: The covert commander in chief

The Post’s View: Obama renews his anti-terrorism strategy

John Podesta: Obama should lift secrecy on drones

Charles Krauthammer: In defense of Obama’s drone war

Richard Cohen: The Obama Doctrine — look the other way