School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ecution, and was underthe charge of the public officers called theEleven. 2. Roman. A prison was first built atRome by Ancus Martius, overhanging theforum. This was enlarged by Servius Tul-lius, who added to it a souterrain, or dun-geon, called from him the describes this as being twelve feetunder ground, walled on each side, andarched over with stone work. For a longtime this was the only prison at Rome,being, in fact, the Tower, or state prisonof the city, which was sometimes doublyguarded in times of alarm, and was thechie
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ecution, and was underthe charge of the public officers called theEleven. 2. Roman. A prison was first built atRome by Ancus Martius, overhanging theforum. This was enlarged by Servius Tul-lius, who added to it a souterrain, or dun-geon, called from him the describes this as being twelve feetunder ground, walled on each side, andarched over with stone work. For a longtime this was the only prison at Rome,being, in fact, the Tower, or state prisonof the city, which was sometimes doublyguarded in times of alarm, and was thechief object of attack in many were, however, other prisons besidesthis, though, as we might expect, the wordsof Roman historians generally refer to thisalone. In the Tullianum prisoners weregenerally executed, and this part of theprison was also called robur. CARCERES. [Circus.] CARCHESIUM (Kapxh(^iou), a beakeror drinking-cup, which was used by theGreeks in very early times. The sameterm was used to designate the tops of OASOHESIUM. a ship, that is, the structure surroundingthe mast immediately above the yard [An-tenna], into which the mariners ascendedin order to manage the sail. This wasprobably called carchesium on account of itsresemblance in form to the cup of thatname. The ceruchi, or other tackle, mayhave been fastened to its lateral projections,which corresponded to the handles of the cup. GARMENT ALIA, a festival cele-brated in honour of Carmenta or Carmentis,who is fabled to have been the mother ofEvander, who came from Pallantium inArcadia, and settled in Latium : he wassaid to have brought with him a knowledgeof the arts, and the Latin alphabetical cha-racters as distinguished from the festival was celebrated annually on the11 th of January. A temple was erected to thesame goddess, at the foot of the Capitolinehill, near the Porta Carmentalis, afterwardscalled Scelerata. The name Carmenta issaid to have been given to her from
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