. 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. d edu-cated at the public expense. 22. ORTHOGRAPHIA (Spdoypacpia).A geometrical or architectural draw-ing, representing an elevation or asection of a building; the first ofwhich consists in showing the exter-nal front of the edifice, with all itsparts, apertures, and decorations, notin perspective
. 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. d edu-cated at the public expense. 22. ORTHOGRAPHIA (Spdoypacpia).A geometrical or architectural draw-ing, representing an elevation or asection of a building; the first ofwhich consists in showing the exter-nal front of the edifice, with all itsparts, apertures, and decorations, notin perspective, but as they would ap-pear to the eye of a spectator placedat an infinite distance from it; thelatteri, in showing the whole plan of ORTHOSTATA, OSSAR1UM. 459 the interior as it would appear in likemanner if the external wall were re-moved. (Vitruv. i. 2. 3.) Thedesigns which originally accompaniedthe work of Yitruvius being lost, wehave no example left of this style ofdrawing amongst the ancients ; butthe skill they exhibited in making outground-plans, or mapping (ichnogra-phia) will stand surety for their excel-lence in this other branch of the art. ORTHOSTATA (dpeoardrns).Literally, which stands upright;whence employed by architects to de-signate the front or facing of a wall,. composed of different materials fromthe internal part of it; viz. of regu-larly laid bricks or ashlar outside anirregular mass of rubble (fartura),as in the annexed specimen of Ro-man building. Vitruv. ii. 8. 4. OSCILLA/fnO (aid>pa). A swing,or game at swinging (Pet. Sat. Fab. 130. Festus s. ad Virg. Georg. ii. 389.); afavourite amusement with the an-
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