. 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. represents an original bronze watercock found at Pompeii, similar inconstructive principle to those now inuse, but of a more tasteful says (JEp. 86.) that in his daythe baths of Rome, even for the com-mon people, were furnished withsilver cocks. EPIST YL/IUM (bcurrtXiov).Properly, a Greek word a
. 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. represents an original bronze watercock found at Pompeii, similar inconstructive principle to those now inuse, but of a more tasteful says (JEp. 86.) that in his daythe baths of Rome, even for the com-mon people, were furnished withsilver cocks. EPIST YL/IUM (bcurrtXiov).Properly, a Greek word adopted bythe Roman architects to designatethe architrave or main beam laidhorizontally over the capitals of acolumn, from one to the other, inorder to form a continuous bed for asuperstructure to rest upon. When. the architrave was made of timber,it was properly called trabs; whenof stone or marble, epistylium, though 262 EPITHALAmUM. EQUES. that word, as a general term, maywith equal correctness be applied toboth. (Vitruv. iii. 5. 11. Varro, iii. 5. 11. Festus, ) Theexample, from a tomb sculptured inthe rock at Beni Hassan, explains theoriginal use and early application ofthe epistylium to columnar architec-ture. In this instance, it has noother members over it; merely form-ing a connecting surface for the roof{tectum) to rest upon ; but the nextengraving shows its finished state asone of the principal members of anentablature. 2. Epistylia; in the plural, theepistyles; which comprise the wholesuperstructure above the abacus of acolumn, forming what our architectsterm collectively the entablature,otherwise divided by them into threedistinct mem-bers ; the ar-chitrave (trabs,or epistylium) atbottom; thefrieze (zophorus)next above ; andthe cornice overall, for whichthe Romans hadno coll
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