. 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. those of alarger size. Hence the word is oftenmet with in the plural number, whilethe sail attached to it is at the sametime expressed by the singular— a?i-tennis totum subnectite velum (Ovid,Met. xi. 483.). Small yards of asingle piece are represented in several 40 ANTEPAGMENTUM. ANTEKIDES. of the wood-cuts,
. 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. those of alarger size. Hence the word is oftenmet with in the plural number, whilethe sail attached to it is at the sametime expressed by the singular— a?i-tennis totum subnectite velum (Ovid,Met. xi. 483.). Small yards of asingle piece are represented in several 40 ANTEPAGMENTUM. ANTEKIDES. of the wood-cuts, illustrative of ancientshipping in different parts of thiswork; and the yard introduced atp. 36. s. v. Anquina shows distinctlythe manner in which the two pieceswere joined together for the largerkinds. The yard itself is taken froma bas-relief on a tomb at Pompeii ;the details of the sail and truss bywhich it is fixed to the mast, fromtwo terra-cotta lamps of Bartoli. ANTEPAGMENTUM. Thejamb of a door-case ; especially sotermed when the jamb was madewith an ornamental moulding whichprojected before the upright pillar(scapus cardinalis) that formed thepivot on which the door turned, andconcealed it entirely from view onthe outside. Vitruv. iv. 6. Festus,s. v. Cato. R. R. xiv. This will be readily understood bythe illustration, which represents anelevation and ground-plan of theancient door and door-case still re-maining to the church of S. Theodore at Rome, formerly the temple ofRemus. On the right side the ante-j pagmentum is cut away in order toI expose the shaft and socket, whilethe left side and the ground-planI show the manner in which those parts! were concealed by the antepagmentum,and explain the real meaning of theword. It will also be observed thata door so constructed could only openinwards; the style of the door, towhich the pivot was affixed, and thesocket in which it turned, beingplaced behind a projecting part ofthe jamb, which was hollowed to re-ceive it,
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