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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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wholeplan and construction of these edificeswill be better understood by comparingit with the plan subjoined in the fol-lowing page, which is a restored sec-tion, and elevation of a portion of the AMPHITHEATRUM. AMPHORA. 29 amphitheatre at Pola, by the Canonico,Pietro Stancovich (Anfiteatro diPola, tab. 4.), in which all the partsare detailed more perfectly. Thecompany entered the theatre throughthe arches on the ground-floor at theleft hand side of the engraving, a isthe podium, -which is approached bya short staircase, springing from thethird or inner corridor, in the centreof the cut ; it is raised above the arena by a blank wall, surmounted bya balustrade, under which is seen oneof the doorways through which thewild beasts or combatants emergedupon the arena. The staircase,which commences immediately fromthe ground entrance, leads directly tothe first mcenianum (1), which thespectator entered through the door-ways (vomitoria) b, and descendedthe flights of stairs which divide the
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rows of seats between them into awedge-shaped compartment (cuneus),until he came to the particular rowwhere his seat was reserved. Thehigh blank wall into which the en-trance (b) opens, is the balteus,and its object was to separate thedifferent mceniana, and prevent theclasses who were only entitled to aseat in the upper ones from descend-ing info those below. A branchstaircase, diverging to the left, leadsup to the corridor formed by thearcades of the outer wall ; fromwhence it turns to the right, and con-ducts to the second mcenianum (2),which is entered, and distributed inthe same way as the lower one, andseparated from the one above byanother balteus (c). Other stair-cases, but which cannot be shown onone section, conduct in like mannerto the third mcenianum (3) and to the covered gallery for the womenabove (d). The three solid archesin the centre of the engraving, con-structed in the main brickwork of thebuilding, form a succession of cor-ridors encircling the whole edifice,from

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