. 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. a slavewho sat in the porters lodge (cellaostiaria. Pet. Sat. 29. 1.), or in an-cient times was chained himself bythe side of the entrance (Id. 28. Rh. 3.), to take cognizance ofall who entered. Same as Janitor. OSTIUM (frfya). In strictness,designates a door within the house,as the door of a room con
. 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. a slavewho sat in the porters lodge (cellaostiaria. Pet. Sat. 29. 1.), or in an-cient times was chained himself bythe side of the entrance (Id. 28. Rh. 3.), to take cognizance ofall who entered. Same as Janitor. OSTIUM (frfya). In strictness,designates a door within the house,as the door of a room contradistin-guished from the street door (janua).(Isidor. Orig. xv. 7. 4. Vitruv. vi. 3. sage (prothyrum), at the further endof which is another door, the ostium,half closed in the engraving, whichshuts off the atrium, or the aula of aGreek house, from the entrance pas-sage. Vitruvius styles both theseduas januas (vi. 7. 1.); because thedistinction above mentioned, thoughdoubtless an accurate one, was seldomobserved, the word ostium being com-monly used as synonymous withjanua, for any front or entrance door,and especially for the entrance to atemple (Vitruv. vi. 3. 6.), an exam-ple of which is introduced p. 342. 2. The door which closed the frontof the stalls in which the chariots. 6.) This distinction is clearly drawnin a passage of Plautus (Pers. v. ), ante ostium et januam; and isaptly illustrated by the annexed en-graving, representing the door-wayof a house at Pompeii, to which theceiling and doors are restored, for thepurpose of making the subject moreclear and comprehensible. The ja-nua is the door flush with the exter-nal wall of the house, which givesadmission to an entrance hall or pas- and horses were stationed at the Cir-cus (Auson. Ep. xviii. 11.) 5 asshown by the annexed example, froma bas-relief in the British Museum. 3. The mouth or entrance to aport. (Virg. JEn. i. 400.) See theillustration s. Portus. OVFLE. Literally, a fold or penfor sheep or goats ; thenc
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