Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Adulatio

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ADULA'TIO (προσκύνησις, Herod. i. 134). The most abject manner of doing an act of reverence, as practised by the Persians and other Oriental races by prostration of the body and bowing the head upon the ground (Liv. ix. 18. Id. xxx. 16. Suet. Vitell. 2. Curt. viii. 5.), as represented in the annexed gem (Adulatio/1.1) (Gorlaeus, Dactyliothec. ii. 396.), in which a worshipper is performing adulation to the god Anubis. The Latin poets also designated this act by such expressions as procumbere (Tibull. i. 2. 85.), or pronus adorare (Juv. Sat. vi. 48.).

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  Adulatio/1.1