. 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. ries ofcolumns, oneabove the o-ther, support-ing seven dis-tinct entabla-tures or zones,from which itreceived thename. It doesnot appear forwhat particularpurpose these structures were de-signed ; but two such are speciallyrecorded in the city of Rome, one inthe Xllth Region, which existed be-fore the time of
. 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. ries ofcolumns, oneabove the o-ther, support-ing seven dis-tinct entabla-tures or zones,from which itreceived thename. It doesnot appear forwhat particularpurpose these structures were de-signed ; but two such are speciallyrecorded in the city of Rome, one inthe Xllth Region, which existed be-fore the time of the Emperor Titus(Suet. Tit. 2. Ammian. xv. 6. 3.),and the other in the Xth Region,under the Palatine hill, and near tothe Circus Maximus, which was builtby Septimius Sever us. (Spart. ) Three stories of this last struc-ture remained standing during thepontificate of Sixtus V., but weretaken down by him for the purposeof employing the columns in buildingthe Vatican. These are exhibitedby the annexed wood-cut, from an en-graving of the 16th century (Ga-mucci, Antichitd di Roma); andthough they form but a small portionof the original structure in its entirety,yet that is sufficient to convey an accu-rate notion of the general plan uponwhich such monuments were G 2. 596 SEPTUM. SEPULCRUM. SEPTUM, in a general sense,is applied to any enclosure surroundedby barriers, walls, palings, hedges,&c.; such as a sheep-fold, homesteadfor cattle, den for wild beasts, andthe like (Cic. Virg. Varro); but inthe plural the name of Septa wasspecially used to designate a numberof enclosures in the Campus Martiuswithin which the tribes or centurieswere collected at the Roman Comitia,before they proceeded to vote ( i. 53. Lucan. vii. 306. Cic. 16.) Each of these was termed apen (Ovlee, and wood-cut s. v.), andwas originally partitioned off bywooden railings; but subsequentlythe whole site was furnished withmarble fittings, and surrounded bycolonnades as well as othe
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