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14 ADLECTI. ADOPTIO.
taken from originals in bronze, vary in length from scripti as he had done of the adlecti, and Livy (ii.
an inch and a half to about eight inches. 1) says conscriptos in novum senatum appellabant
Pins were made not only of metal, but also of lectos.
wood, bone, and ivory. They were used for the 2. Those persons under the empire who were
same purposes as with us, and also in dressing the admitted to the privileges and honours of the praehair. (Mart. xiv. 24.) The mode of platting the torship, quaestorship, aedileship, and other public
hair, and then fastening it with a pin or needle, is offices, without having any duties to perform.
shown in the annexed figure of a female head, (Capitolin. Pertin. 6.) In inscriptions we contaken from a marble group which was found at stantly find, adlectus inter tribunos, inter quaestores,
Apt, in the south of France. (Montfaucon, Ant. inter praetores, &c.
1rzxp. Suppl. iii. 3.) This fashion has been con- ADLECTOR, a collector of taxes in the provinces in the time of the Roman emperors. (Cod.
A_ ~., Theod. 12. tit. 6. s. 12.)
ADMISSIONA'LES were chamberlains at the
imperial court, who introduced persons to the
presence of the emperor. (Lamprid. Sever. 4;
officium admissionis, Suet. Vesp. 14.) They were
divided into four classes; the chief officer of each
class was called proximus adm'ssionumn (Amm.
ju' Marc. xxii. 7); and the proximrni were under the
magister admissionum. (Amm. Marc. xv. 5; Vop.
A.urel. 12.) The admissionales were usually
freedmen. (Cod. Theod. 6. tit. 2. s. 12; tit. 9.
s. 2; tit. 35. s. 3.)
Friends appear to have been called amici admissionis primae, secundae, or tertiae. According to
some writers, they were so called in consequence
of the order in which they were admitted; accord<,. ing to others, because the atrium was divided into
different parts, separated from one another by
tinued to our own times by the females of Italy, hangings, into which persons were admitted acand of some parts of Germany, as for instance, in cording to the different degrees of favour in which
the neighbourhood of Coblenz. they were held. (Sen. de Benet. vi. 33, 34, Clea.
ADDICTI. [NExi.] i. 10.)
ADDI'CTIO. [AcTIO.] ADOLESCENS. [INFANS.]
ADDIX (&668t, &68L5,s), a Greek measure of ADO/NIA ('Acviea), a festival celebrated in
capacity, equal to four XoiLvKes. (Hesych. s. v.; honour of Aphrodite and Adonis in most of the
Schol. ad Horn. Od. 19.) [P. S.] Grecian cities, as well as in numerous places in
ADEIA (&beLa), freedom from fear, or security, the East. It lasted two days, and was celebrated
in any public action. When any one in Athens, by women exclusively. On the first day they
who had not the full privileges of an Athenian brought into the streets statues of Adonis, which
citizen, such as a foreigner, a slave, &c., wished to were laid out as corpses; and they observed all
accuse a person of any offence against the people, the rites customary at funerals, beating themselves
he was obliged to obtain first permission to do so, and uttering lamentations. The second day was
which permission was called adeia. (Plut. Pericl. spent in merriment and feasting; because Adonis
31.) An Athenian citizen who had incurred was allowed to return to life, and spend half of
atirnia, was also obliged to obtain adeiac before he the year with Aphrodite. (Aristoph. Pax, 412,
could take part in public affairs (Plut. Phoc. 26); Schol. ad loc.; Plut. Alcib. 18, Nic. 13.) For
and it was not lawful for any one to propose to the fuller particulars respecting the worship and festipeople, that an atimus should be restored to his vals of Adonis, see Dict. of Biogr. s. v. Adonis.
rights as a citizen, or that a public debtor should ADO'PTIO, adoption. 1. GREERK, was called
be released from his debt, till adeia had been by the Athenians eZi7roi'tos, or sometimes simply
granted for this purpose by a decree passed in an Irofl7eLs or driaos. The Greek writers use B4tls
assembly of 6000 citizens voting secretly by ballot. also as equivalent to the Roman adoptio, and &esroi
(Dem. c. Timocr. p.'715; Andoc. de Myst. p. 36; as equivalent to aldoptivi. (App. B. C. iii. 13, 14.)
Biickh, Public Economny of Athens, p. 392, 2d ed.) The adoptive father was said 7roleT0Oai, elo7roLe?ADE'MPTIO. [LEGATUM.] o'rOe or sometimes 1rote7v: and the father or mother
ADGNA'TI. [COGNATI.] (for a mother after the death of her husband
ADGNA'TIO. [HERES; TESTAMENTUM.] could consent to her son being adopted) was said
ADI/TIO HEREDITA'TIS. [HERas.] iIc7rOLeW?: the son was said irc7roedeOal, with reADJUDICA'TIO. [AcTIO.] feTence to the family which he left; and eiorotE.ADLEC'TI or ALLECTI. 1. Those who were Oeat, with reference to the family into which he was
chosen to fill up a vacancy in any office or colle- received. The son, when adopted, was called
gium, and especially those who were chosen to fill I7roL7Tlr, eiarotmlOrTs, ord 3es: in opposition to the
up the proper number of the senate. As these legitimate son born of the body of the father, who
would be generally equites, Festus (s. v.) defines was called yvi1r0os.
the adlecti to be equites added to the senate: and A man might adopt a son either in his lifetime
he appears in this passage to make a difference be- or by his testament, provided he had no male offtween the adlecti and conscripti. But they were spring and was of sound mind. He might also, by
probably the same; for in another passage (s. v. testament, name a person to take his property, in
conscripti), he gives the same definition of the con- case his son or sons should die under age, (Dem.