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Title: The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a close inspection, to be in agreat measure authorised by the cor-responding parts in existence. Withregard to the names and uses assignedto each portion of the plan, they havebeen made to accord, as near as canbe, with the words of Vitruvius,which is satisfactorily accomplishedin all the more important particu-lars ; sufficiently, at least, to give thereader a clear and accurate notion ofthe number and variety of parts es-t t 2 324 GYMNASIUM. sentially required in a Greek Gym-nasium, and of the manner in whichthey were usually distributed. AAA. Three single corridors (por-ticus simplices) round three sides ofthe central pile of building, fittedwith seats and chairs, and adornedwith exedrce for philosophers and others to retire and converse in.The two divisions observable at thebottom angles of the corridors,each of which is constructed witha semicircular absis, appear, fromtheir form and position, to have beenexedrce constructed in the three cor-ridors (in tribus porticibus), as Vi-
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truvius directs, b. A double corri-dor facing the south (portions duplexad meridianas regiones conversd), soconstructed, that the inside walkmight afford shelter from the rain,when driven inwards by windy wea-ther. These four corridors takentogether constitute what Vitruviuscalls the peristyle (peristylium), which,though forming a peripteral porticoround the cluster of rooms comprisedin the central pile, is still a trueperistylium in respect to the outerparts of the edifice within which itis situated. (Compare Peripteros and Peristylium.) c. Ephebeum ;a large hall furnished with seats, in-tended as the exercising-room of theephebi, and opening on to the centreof the double corridor (in dupliciporticu, in medio). D. Coryceum, onthe right-hand of the last apartment(sub dextro). e. Conisterium, thenext adjoining (deinde proxime). f.Frigida lavatio ; the cold-water bath,beyond the conisterium, and after theturn in the building. Vitruvius placesit exactly in the angle (in versura);so that

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