Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ascio

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

AS'CIO (σκεπαρνίζω). When applied to wood-workers, to chop, form, or fashion with a carpenter's adze (ascia), an operation which the ancients performed with one hand, and upon surfaces placed in an upright position, as shown by the cut (Ascio/1.1), which represents one of the workmen of Daedalus employed in this manner, from a bas-relief of the Villa Albani.

2. When applied to builders, to stir up and mix mortar with a plasterer's hoe, as in the illustration to ASCIA, No. 3.

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  Ascio/1.1