School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . the 24 AMPHITHEATRUM. praeclnctio, but was intersected at intervalsby spaces for passages left between the seats,called scalae, or scalaria ; and the portion be-tween two such passf^es was called cuneus,because the space gradually widened like awedge, from the podium to the top of thebuilding. The entrances to the seats fromthe outer porticcs were called the very summit was the narrow plat-form for the men who had to attend to thevelarium, or awning, by which the buildingwas covered as a defence against the sun AMPHITHEATRUM. and
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . the 24 AMPHITHEATRUM. praeclnctio, but was intersected at intervalsby spaces for passages left between the seats,called scalae, or scalaria ; and the portion be-tween two such passf^es was called cuneus,because the space gradually widened like awedge, from the podium to the top of thebuilding. The entrances to the seats fromthe outer porticcs were called the very summit was the narrow plat-form for the men who had to attend to thevelarium, or awning, by which the buildingwas covered as a defence against the sun AMPHITHEATRUM. and rain. The velarium appears usually tohave been made of wool, but more costlymaterials were sometimes employed. The first of the following cuts representsa longitudinal section of the Flavian am-phitheatre, and the second, which is on alarger scale, a part of the above section, in-cluding the exterior wall, and the seatsincluded between that and the arena. Itwill serve to convey an idea of the leadingform and general disposition of the LOKaiTODINi^X. SECTION OF THE FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE.
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