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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Legionary
From a monument of the imperial age. The soldier wears a metal helmet, a leather doublet with shoulder-pieces, a metal-plated belt, and a sword hanging from a strap thrown over the left shoulder. His left hand holds a large shield, his...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Litter
The litter consists of an ordinary couch with four posts and a pair of posts. Curtains fastened to the rod above the canopy shielded the occupant from observation.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Slinger
A projectile weapon used to throw a blunt projectile.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Standard Bearer
From a gravestone of the first century A.D. The standard consists of a spear crowned with a wreath, below which is a crossbar bearing pendant acorns. Then follow, in order, a metal disk. Jupiter's eagle standing on a thunderbolt, a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Villa
An ancient Roman villa.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Slave's Collar
A runaway slave, if recaptured, was sometimes compelled to wear a metal collar riveted about his neck.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubatio
The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acerra
The incense-box or censer used in sacrifices. The acerra was also a small moveable alter placed before the dead, on which perfumes were burnt. The use of the accerrae at funerals was forbidden by a law of the Twelve Tables as an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acinaces
A Persian sword, whence Horace speaks of the Medus acinaces. The acinaces was a short and straight weapon; and thus differed from the Roman sica, which was curved. It was worn on the right side of the body, whereas the Greeks and Romans...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acus
A needle, a pin. Pins were made not only of metal, but also of wood, bone, and ivory. They were used for the same purposes as with us, and also in dressing the hair. The mode of platting the hair, and then fastening it with a pin or...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alexander
Alexander defeating the Persians.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Amphitheatre
View of the amphitheatre at Pompeii.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Amphitheatrical Amusements
Bas-relief of early amusements at the amphitheatre.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: An Ertuscan Arch
The Italian city of Volterra still preserves in the Porta dell' Arco an interesting relic of Ertuscan times. The archway, one of the original gates of the ancient town, is about twenty feet in height and twelve feet in width. On the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Censer
In makin Aeneas burn incense, Virgil follows the custom of his own time rather than historical verity. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancile
Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Apex
A cap worn by the flamines and salii at Rome. The essential part of the apex, to which alone the name properly belonged, was a pointed piece of olive-wood, the base of which was surrounded with a lock of wool. This was worn on the top of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arma
Homer describes in various passages an entire suit of armour, and we observe that it consisted of the same portions which were used by the Greek soldiers ever after. Moreover, the order of putting them on is always the same. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arms of Leo X
Arms of Leo X (Medici). - Young, 1901
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Athenian Town Clock
The town clock of Athens in the Hellenistic Age. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Augustus
Augustus ruled for about forty-two yeras, that is, from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D., and this period is known in history as the Golden Age of Latin Literature.-Colby, 1899
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Balneum
Balneum or balineum signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing vessel, such as most Romans possessed in their own houses; and from that it came to mean the chamber which contained the bath. When the baths of private individuals...