A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

by William Smith

CINCTUS GABĪNUS. [[Toga].]

CINGŬLUM. [[Zona].]

CĬNĔRĀRĬUS. [[Calamistrum].]

CĬNĔRES. [[Funus].]

CĬNĬFLO. [[Calamistrum].]

CIPPUS, a low column, sometimes round, but more frequently rectangular. Cippi were used for various purposes; the decrees of the senate were sometimes inscribed upon them; and with distances engraved upon them, they also served as mile-stones. They were, however, more frequently employed as sepulchral monuments. It was also usual to place at one corner of the burying-ground a cippus, on which the extent of the burying-ground was marked, towards the road (in fronte), and backwards to the fields (in agrum).

Cippus, in the Vatican.

CIRCENSES LŪDI. [[Circus].]