Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Index

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

INDEX (σίλλυβοσ). The title of a book, which announced the subject treated in the work. (Cic. Att. iv. 4. Id. Or. 11. 14. Liv. xxxviii. 56. Suet. Cal. 49.) It answers to the title-page of a modern book, with this difference, that it was written at the end instead of the commencement; at least it is so placed in all the Herculanean MSS. which have been unrolled. It likewise answers to what is now called the lettering piece, attached to the back of the volume; for it was sometimes written on a separate piece of parchment or papyrus, tinged of a red colour, with coccum or minium, and affixed to the centre of the roll, so as to hang down outside, and announce its contents, as in the annexed example (Index/1.1) from a painting at Pompeii. Iorio, Officina de' Papiri, del Real. Mus. Borb.

2. An inscription upon the base of a statue, upon a slab or upon any object, recounting the actions, &c. which such works were intended to commemorate. Tibull. iv. 1. 30. Liv. xli. 28.

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