Sometimes they wash'd their Hands and Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made of Marble Triumphant (as Du Choul calls it) fill'd with Water.
ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vase or cup used at table to serve up things proper for sauce or seasoning, much after the manner of our salts and vinegar cruets. See VASE, and VESSEL.
Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes the name to have been formed from Acetum Vinegar; as supposing it principally designed to serve vinegar on.
Acetabulum is also used for a Roman measure, in use chiefly in medicine, for liquid matters. See MEASURE.
Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes the name to have been formed from Acetum Vinegar; as supposing it principally designed to serve vinegar on.
Acetabulum is also used for a Roman measure, in use chiefly in medicine, for liquid matters. See MEASURE.
ACOLYTHES, Acolythi, in Antiquity, a Term applied to such Persons as were steady and immovable in their Resolutions.
For this Reason, the Stoics were called Acolythes; in regard, nothing could shake or alter their Resolves. See STOIC.
Among Ecclesiastical Writers, the Term Acolythes is peculiarly applied to those young People, who, in the primitive Times, aspired to the Ministry; and for that Purpose, continually attended the Bishops: Which Assiduity occasioned their being called Acolythes.
For this Reason, the Stoics were called Acolythes; in regard, nothing could shake or alter their Resolves. See STOIC.
Among Ecclesiastical Writers, the Term Acolythes is peculiarly applied to those young People, who, in the primitive Times, aspired to the Ministry; and for that Purpose, continually attended the Bishops: Which Assiduity occasioned their being called Acolythes.
ACTIA, in antiquity, Actian Games, Ludi Actiaci, solemn games, instituted, or according to some only restored, by Augustus, in memory of the victory over Antony at Actium. See GAME.
Some will have them held every third year, but the more common opinion is that they only returned every fifth, and were celebrated in honor of Apollo.
By the way, it is a gross oversight in some authors, to imagine that Virgil insinuates them to have been instituted by Aeneas; from that passage Aeneid III. v. 280.Actiaque Mavortis celebrantur littora ludis.It is true, the poet there alludes to the Actian Games;but he only does it by way of compliment to Augustus, to attribute that to the hero from whom he descended, which was done by the Emperor himself: As is observed by Servius.
Some will have them held every third year, but the more common opinion is that they only returned every fifth, and were celebrated in honor of Apollo.
By the way, it is a gross oversight in some authors, to imagine that Virgil insinuates them to have been instituted by Aeneas; from that passage Aeneid III. v. 280.Actiaque Mavortis celebrantur littora ludis.It is true, the poet there alludes to the Actian Games;but he only does it by way of compliment to Augustus, to attribute that to the hero from whom he descended, which was done by the Emperor himself: As is observed by Servius.