. 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. Pompeian paintings. (Plaut. 2. 84. Pet. Sat. 74.) Whence thefollowing more special senses : — 2. A stall or balcony constructedover the colonnades of a forum, andabutting from the buildings adjacent;chiefly intended for the occupation ofbankers and money changers. N. xxi. 6. and compare M^eni
. 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. Pompeian paintings. (Plaut. 2. 84. Pet. Sat. 74.) Whence thefollowing more special senses : — 2. A stall or balcony constructedover the colonnades of a forum, andabutting from the buildings adjacent;chiefly intended for the occupation ofbankers and money changers. N. xxi. 6. and compare M^eni- ANUM. 3. A painters exhibition- room; alarge outbuilding in which the artistsof antiquity were accustomed to ex-pose their works to public view,when finished. Lucil. ap. Lactant. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. § Theodos. 13. 4. 4. 4. A lecture room in which any ofthe arts or sciences were taught. PERIPETASMA. PERISTYLIUM. 491 Suet. Gramm. 18. Juv. xi. Saturn. 10. 5. An observatory at the top of ahouse for taking astronomical obser-vations. Suet. Aug. 94. 6. In vineyards and gardens along covered walk, over which thevines were trained to a framework of. wood or trellis, as in the annexed ex-ample from a painting of the Naso-nian sepulchre. (Liv. xiv. 3. Colu-mell. iv. 21. 2. Id. xi. 2. 32.) Themodern Italians retain the word lapergola in the same sense. PERIPETASMA (Tre/nTreW^a).A general term, strictly Greek, forany thing which is spread out, as acovering, curtain, tapestry hanging,&c. Cic. Verr. ii. 4. 12. See Au- LAEA, PERISTROMA, TAPES. PERIFTEROS (irepfarrepos). Aterm employedby architectsto designate atemple or otheredifice whichis surroundedon the outside by a colonnade con-sisting of a single row of columns allround. (Vitruv. iii. 2.) The templeof Theseus at Athens affords an exist-ing specimen of the style. PERISCELIS (Trepio-KeAiV). Ananklet, made of choice materials andworkmanship, worn more particularlyby the Greek women and courtezansround the
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