Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Radius 1. A straight pointed rod used by geometricians and astronomers for describing figures on
• Rastrum RASTRI, RASTELLUS. In this word the neuter form belongs to the singular; the masculine, as
• Ratis a raft. Its nature is roughly described by Festus, p. 136, rates vocantur tigna colligata
• Reda a large carriage with four wheels (Isid. 20.12; Cod. Theod. 8.5, 8, where it is distinguis
• Redhibitoria ACTIO was an action given by the edict of the curule aediles to a buyer against a seller f
• Regia at first the building in which the king, as head of the state religion, performed the func
• Regifugium an annual festival at Rome on the 24th of February. On this day the REX SACRORUM offered s
• Regio The topographical description of Rome and Italy does not belong to this work, and, for the
• Regula the ruler used by scribes for drawing right lines (Brunck, Anal. 3.69, 87); also the rule
• Remulcum a rope for towing a ship (Remulcum, funis, quo deligata navis magna trahitur vice remi, Is
• Repetundae or PECUNIAE REPETUNDAE. Repetundae pecuniae in its widest sense was the term used to desig
• Restitutio IN INTEGRUM signifies the rescinding of an act by the magistratus in order to prevent the
• Restitutoria actio actio [INTERCESSIO] RETE; dim. RETICULUM (δίκτυον), a net. Nets were made most commonly of
• Rex king. Greek Derivation possibly root βα, make to go, and λευ- = λαο, people (cf. λευτυχίδη
• Rex nemorensis nemorensis the priest of Diana in the grove by the lake of Nemi, near Aricia. Tradition sp
• Rex sacrorum sacrorum In this form, or as rex sacrûm, the title is always found in inscriptions (C. I.
• Rhetorice graphe graphe (ῥητορικὴ γραφή). The interpretations of this expression offered by the grammarians
• Rhetra . This word is variously explained by both ancient and modern writers. Hesychius, s.v. def
• Rhythmica The sources from which our knowledge of Greek rhythm is to be drawn are the following: the
• Rhyton a drinking-horn (κέρας), by which name it was originally called (Athen. 11.497 b). Athenae
• Ricinium Before the palla came into use at Rome, a mantle of a smaller size, the ricinium, was worn
• Robigalia a public festival in nonour of the god Robigus, to preserve the fields from mildew, is sai
• Rostra was the name applied to a stage or platform at Rome, first between the Comitium and Forum,
• Rota The various kinds of wheels are described under CURRUS, MACHINA, MOLA, TYMPANUM; and the r
• Runcina a plane (Tertull. Apol. 12; Plin. Nat. 16.225), is delineated among joiners' tools (Instru
• Rutrum dim. RUTELLUM, a kind of hoe, probably of iron (and so in one reading of Cato, Cat. Agr. 1