A-dictionary-of-greek-and-roman-antiquities-william-smith

MANSIO. MANSIO.
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MANDRAE. [Latrunculi.]
afford a shelter during the night both to man and
MANDYAS (}Lay5vas). [Lackrna.] beast
MANES. See Diet of Greek and Horn. Bio The Latin term mansio is derived from manerr,
graphy and Mythology,
signifying to pass the night at a place in travelling.
MANGONES. [Sbrvus.]
On the great Roman roads the man siones were at
MA'NICA, a sleeve. Besides the use of sleeves the same distance from one another as on those of
sewed to the tunic, which, when so manufactured, the Persian empire. They were originally called
was called chiridota or manicata tunica (Curt. iii. castra, being probably mere places of encampment
7. p. 12, ed. Zumpt), sleeves were also worn as a formed by making earthen entrenchments. In
separate part of the dress. Palladius (de Re Rust. process of time they included, not only barracks
i. 43) mentions the propriety of providing ocreas and magazines of provisions (hom o) for the troops,
manicasque de pellibus, i. e. leggins and sleeves but commodious buildings adapted for the reception
made of hides, as useful both to the huntsman and of travellers of all ranks, and even of the emperor
to the agricultural labourer. The Roman gladiators himself, if he should have occasion to visit them.
wore, together with greaves, a sleeve of an appro At those stations the cisiarii kept gigs for hire and
priate kind on the right arm and hand (Juv. vi.
255), as is exhibited in the woodcuts at p. 576.
These ports of dress are mentioned together
even as early as the Homeric age (see Od. xxiv.
228, 229). In this passage the manicae (xtlP&ts)
seem to be mittens, worn on the hands to protect
them from briars and thorns : and Eustathius, in
his commentary on the passage, distinguishes be
tween simple mittens, such as our labourers use in
hedging, and gloves, which he calls xtlP&*s 5a«-
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