. 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. PROSTYLOS (TrpoVruAos). Atemple or other building, which hasa porch supported upona colonnade in itsfront, as shown bythe annexed groundplan, and the illus-tration to Pronaos,where a similar struc-ture is exhibited inelevation. 2. PROSTYPUM (irpoViwov,Callix. ap. Athen. v. 30.)- Thereading adopted
. 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. PROSTYLOS (TrpoVruAos). Atemple or other building, which hasa porch supported upona colonnade in itsfront, as shown bythe annexed groundplan, and the illus-tration to Pronaos,where a similar struc-ture is exhibited inelevation. 2. PROSTYPUM (irpoViwov,Callix. ap. Athen. v. 30.)- Thereading adopted in some editions ofPliny (H. N. xxxv. 43.) instead ofprotypum, and interpreted to meanimages in low relief (basso-rilievo), ascontradistinguished from such as areexecuted in high relief (alto-rilievo). PROSUMIA. A small sea-goingcraft, employed as a spy ship, to keepa look out and watch the motions ofan enemys fleet; but beyond this, itscharacteristic peculiarities are not as-certained. Festus, s. v. Caecil. s. v. p. 536. PROTHYRUM (tidBvpov). An. entrance hall in a Roman house ; that is, a small corridor situated betweenthe street door (janua), which wasprobably always kept open in the day-time, as is still the practice of modernItaly, and the house door (ostium),which gave immediate access to theatrium, and interior of the Greek name defines it moreaccurately as the part between (did)the doors; and their irpodvpov, orplace before the door, correspondswith the Roman vestibulum ( 7. 5.). The woodcut representsan entrance-passage to one of thehouses at Pompeii, with the ceilingand doors restored to give a morecomplete notion of the locality; thecolumns seen through the furthestdoor, one leaf of which is representedas closed, are those of the atrium. PROTYPUM (rrpdrvnop). Amodel after which any thing is formed,j corresponding with our In a passage of Pliny (H. N. xxxv.{ 43.), the term is used to designatereliefs in terra cotta employed asa
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