Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Gnomon

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. 

GNO'MON (γνώμων). The index or pin on a sun-dial which marks the hour by the shadow it casts (Plin. H. N. ii. 74. Vitruv. i. 6. 6.), as shown by the annexed engraving (Gnomon/1.1) from a silver cup of Greek workmanship, discovered at Porto d' Anzio, the old Antium.

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