. 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. The illustration represents a streetview in Pompeii, with the embouch-ures of two drains under the pave- CLOACA. CLUNABULUM. 181 merit, and shows the manner inwhich the rain waters entered them. 2. Cloaca Maxima. A main sewer,which received the contents of severaltributary branches, and conductedthem in one c
. 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. The illustration represents a streetview in Pompeii, with the embouch-ures of two drains under the pave- CLOACA. CLUNABULUM. 181 merit, and shows the manner inwhich the rain waters entered them. 2. Cloaca Maxima. A main sewer,which received the contents of severaltributary branches, and conductedthem in one channel to the the name is also specially givento the great sewer of Rome, whichwas made by the elder Tarquin forthe purpose of draining off the stag-nant waters of the Velabra, and lowlands between the Palatine and Capi-toline hills, in order to provide anarea for laying out the race-course,or Circus Maximus, and the considerable portion of this greatwork is still in existence, after a lapseof more than 2000 years. It consistsof three concentric arches of masonry,put together without cement, and inthe style called Etruscan, as shownby the annexed elevation, which re- : !1__J 7 II ililH!- ll wmww li iiMihiiipiiihiiiiiiiiiiMii \ 1 presents the embouchure where itopens upon the Tiber, near the Sub-lician bridge, and part of the adjacentwall, which formed the substructionof the quay termed pulchrum smallest, or innermost arch, isbetween 13 and 14 feet in diameter ;each of the blocks composing thearch is 5 feet 10 inches wide, andrather more than 3 feet 3 incheshigh; the whole being composed ofthe dark volcanic stone {tufa , Suolo di Boma.), whichforms the basis of the Capitoline hill,and was the common building mate-rial during the periods ascribed tothe early kings. A design showingthe construction of the undergroundpart is exhibited at p. 41. s. Ante- rides. Plin, H. N. xxxvi. 24. , iii. 67. CLOACARIUM. The sewers-rate ; a t
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