. 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. especially a large and loose coverletcustomarily spread over a bed ordining couch so as to hang downround the sides, in the manner shownby the annexed illustration from theVatican Virgil. Cic. Phil. ii. 27. PERISTYLIUM (vcpurritoov).A peristyle; that is, a colonnaderound a courtyard, or in the interiorof a bu
. 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. especially a large and loose coverletcustomarily spread over a bed ordining couch so as to hang downround the sides, in the manner shownby the annexed illustration from theVatican Virgil. Cic. Phil. ii. 27. PERISTYLIUM (vcpurritoov).A peristyle; that is, a colonnaderound a courtyard, or in the interiorof a building, which has the columnson the inside and the wall without;3 R 2 492 PERISTYLUM. PERSONA. whereas the term peripterus is used toexpress a structure designed upon a. plan precisely the reverse of this;viz. a colonnade on the exterior of abuilding, which has the columns onits outside, and the wall Aug. 82. Plin. Ep. x. 23. Vitruv. iii. 3. 9. 2. The peristyle of a Roman house,which formed the second or innerdivision of the general ground-plan,corresponding in locality with theGynceconitis of a Greek domicile; andwas regarded as the internal or pri-vate portion of the edifice, containingthe domestic apartments in the ordi-nary occupation of the proprietor andhis family, to which none but theirimmediate friends and acquaintanceshad access. It consisted of an openspace, surrounded internally with acolonnade, like the Atrium, butcovering a larger area, open to thesky, and sometimes laid out as a gar-den, with a fouutain and impluviumin the centre ; the apartments occu-pied by the family being distributedround its sides, and opening upon thecolonnade in question. It was sepa-rated from the Atrium by the tablinumand fauces, which
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