. 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. orpromts adorare (Juv. Sat. vi. 48.). ADVERSA RIA, sc. scripta. Aday-book, or common-place book, inwhich accounts or memorandumswere put down at the moment to besubsequently transcribed into a ledger,or into a regular journal. Cic. proRose. Com. 2. ADYTUM (&$vrovy A private orsecret chamber in a temple, fromw
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. orpromts adorare (Juv. Sat. vi. 48.). ADVERSA RIA, sc. scripta. Aday-book, or common-place book, inwhich accounts or memorandumswere put down at the moment to besubsequently transcribed into a ledger,or into a regular journal. Cic. proRose. Com. 2. ADYTUM (&$vrovy A private orsecret chamber in a temple, fromwhich every person but the officiatingpriests were strictly excluded. ( C. iii. 105. Virg. Mn. vi. 98.)That the adytum was distinct fromthe cella, is clear from a passage ofLucan (Phars. v. 141—161.), in whichthe priestess, dreading the violentexertions she would have to undergofrom the stimulants applied in thesecret chamber to produce an effectlike prophetic inspiration — pavensadyti penetrate remotiFatidicum—stopsshort in the body of the temple andrefuses to advance into the adytum, orden {antrum) as it is there termed,until she is compelled by force. Achamber of this kind is represented inthat portion of the annexed illustra-tion, which lies behind the circular. absis, marked in a stronger tint thanthe rest, and which communicates withthe body of the edifice by two doors,one on each side. The whole repre-sents the ground-plan of a small Dorictemple, formerly existing near thetheatre of Marcellus, at Rome on thec 2 12 ADYTUM. iEDITUUS. site of which the church of S. Niccolain Carcere now stands. It is copiedfrom the work of Labacco, who sur-veyed it in the 16th century, LibrodelV Architettura, Roma, 1558. Apartments of this description wereconstructed for the purpose of en-abling the priesthood to delude theirvotaries by the delivery of oracularresponses, the exhibition of miracles,or any sort of preternatural effects,and at the same time conceal theagency by whi
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