A dictionary of Greek and Roman . - representedin the paintings of Greek figures on the walls ofPompeii, as in the following representation of aNereid. {Museo Borbonico, vol. vi. tav. xxxiv.). It must be observed, however, that the Greeklexicographers Hesychius, Photius, and Suidas, in-terpret 7repi07<eA7? and irepicnceAta by PpaKKia,(pefxiuaXia, and St. Jerome {Epist. ad Fabiol.) ex-pressly states that the Greek TrepLcrKeXrj were thesame with the Latin feminalia, that is, drawersreaching from the navel to the knees. In theSeptuagint we find irepivKeAks {sc. ev$) in Exod.

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A dictionary of Greek and Roman . - representedin the paintings of Greek figures on the walls ofPompeii, as in the following representation of aNereid. {Museo Borbonico, vol. vi. tav. xxxiv.). It must be observed, however, that the Greeklexicographers Hesychius, Photius, and Suidas, in-terpret 7repi07<eA7? and irepicnceAta by PpaKKia,(pefxiuaXia, and St. Jerome {Epist. ad Fabiol.) ex-pressly states that the Greek TrepLcrKeXrj were thesame with the Latin feminalia, that is, drawersreaching from the navel to the knees. In theSeptuagint we find irepivKeAks {sc. ev$) in Exod. xxviii. 42, xxxix. 28, Levit. vi. 10, and?nepicTKeKiov in Levit. xvi. 4, Avhich our translatorsuniformly render, and apparently with accuracy,linen breeches. [W. PERISTIARCHUS {TrepiaTiapxos). [Eccle-SIA, p. 441, b.]PERISTROMA. [Tapes ; Velum.]PERISTYLIUM {-rrepio-TvAiou), as its nameimplies, was a continued row or series of rows ofcolumns all round a court or building, in contra-distinction to Porticus (crToa), in which the pillarsdid not surround a space, but were arranged inone or more parallel lines. The enclosed courtwas also called peristylium. The chief specific useof the word is in re

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