| Great Britain - 1848 - 510 pages
...driving home the weft after it had been conveyed through the warp. The spatha was superseded by the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads of the warp, and thus used to drive the threads of the weft close together. The teeth of the comb were curved, as is still... | |
| William Smith - 1851 - 366 pages
...the second cut. The spatha was, however, in a great degree superseded by the comb (pecten, /cep/u^), the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...by a comparison with the loom, with which they were familiar. The terms jugum and stamina were transferred by an obvious resemblance from the latter to... | |
| Juvenal - 1857 - 496 pages
...Elsewhere he says to a rirh friend, "Te Cadmea Tyros me pinguis Gallia vestit." ' Pectén ' was a comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads of the warp to force the threads of the woof close together (sec Diet. Ant., ' Tela '). For this insertion of the... | |
| Virgil - 1858 - 452 pages
...light. 294.] Comp. А. 7. 14, which shows that 'pectine' goes with 'arguto.' "Pectine, Kipxic, the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together .... Among us the office of the comb is executed with greater ease and effect by the reed, lay, or... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1858 - 436 pages
...294.] Сотр. А. 7- 14, which shows that 'pectine' goes with 'arguto.' "Pectine, KfpKÎç, the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together .... Among us the office of the comb is executed with greater ease and effect by the reed, lay, or... | |
| James Hobbs Hanson - 1865 - 672 pages
...and split into various parts. — 293. Bolata = solans. See on v. 206. — 294. Pectine ; the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together. Its office was the same as that of the reed or sley among us. — 295. This verse is hypercatalectic,... | |
| Virgil - 1865 - 468 pages
...Сотр. А. 7. 14, which shows that ' pectine ' goes with ' arguto.' ' Pectine,' ni i'ia'v. " the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together. . . . Among us the office of the comb is executed with greater case and effect by the reed, lay, or... | |
| James Hobbs Hanson, William James Rolfe - 1865 - 796 pages
...and split into various parts. — 293. Solata — solans. See on v. 206. — 294. Pectine; the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together. Its office »as the same as that of the reed or sley among us. — 295. This verse is hypercatalectic,... | |
| James Hobbs Hanson - 1865 - 794 pages
...and split into various parts. — 293. Solata = solans. See on v. 206. — 294. Pectine ; the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads of the warp, and thus made by a forcible impuis* to drive the threads of the woof close together. Its office was the game as that of the reed... | |
| Alex Johnston Warden - 1867 - 840 pages
...probably the most ancient was a large wooden sword, spatha, but the most common was the comb, pecten, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads...impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together, so as to make compact or firm cloth. Although Linen appears to have been originally characteristic... | |
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