. 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. rs. ( iv. 15.) It is probably derivedfrom xaAaa>, to slacken, loosen, or letclown; and allied to the xaXLV°si orbridle of the Greek sailors. CHALCIDTCUM (XaA/a&Kd*/).A large, low, and deep porch, coveredwith its own roof, supported on pilas-ters, and appended to the entrancefront of a building, w
. 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. rs. ( iv. 15.) It is probably derivedfrom xaAaa>, to slacken, loosen, or letclown; and allied to the xaXLV°si orbridle of the Greek sailors. CHALCIDTCUM (XaA/a&Kd*/).A large, low, and deep porch, coveredwith its own roof, supported on pilas-ters, and appended to the entrancefront of a building, where it protectsthe principal doorway, and forms agrand entrance to the whole edifice(Becchi, del Calcidico e della Criptadi Eumachia, § 21—43.), in the man-ner represented by the following en-graving, which represents a structureof similar character, now remainingin front of the very ancient church ofS. Giorgio in Velabro at Rome, be-lieved to occupy the site of theoriginal Basilica Semproniana in theForum Boarium. Structures of thiskind received their name from thecity of Chalcis (Festus. s. v.), where,it may be presumed, they were firstintroduced, or of the most frequent 150 CHALCIDICUM, CHARACTER. occurrence; and they were added onto private as well as public edifices,. not merely as an ornament to thefacade, but for the purpose of afford-ing shelter to persons whilst waitingon the outside for their turn to beadmitted, or who transacted theirbusiness under them; to the palacesof kings and great personages ( 184. Auson. Perioch. Odyss. de Mdijie. Justin, i. 10.) ; tothe basilica?, courts of justice, andmerchants changes (Vitruv. v. 1.),where they would serve to containthe articles of merchandize, the saleof which was negotiated in the in-terior; to the curia, the town-hall,and senate-house (Dion Cass. li. Mon. Ancyran. ap. 232. 4.), perhaps for the receptionof the slaves awaiting their masters,and of the people naturally congre-gat
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