. 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. copied 78 BALTEUS. BAPTISTERIUM. 7. The band which encircles thebolster or cushion on the side of an. Ionic capital; in technical language,the band or girdle of the bolsters.(Vitruv. xi. 5. 7.) It is often coveredwith sculpture, as in the example,which represents a side view of acapital belonging to the templ
. 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. copied 78 BALTEUS. BAPTISTERIUM. 7. The band which encircles thebolster or cushion on the side of an. Ionic capital; in technical language,the band or girdle of the bolsters.(Vitruv. xi. 5. 7.) It is often coveredwith sculpture, as in the example,which represents a side view of acapital belonging to the temple ofMinerva Polias. 8. In a theatre or amphitheatre,a wall or belt, which formed a line ofdemarcation between one tier ofseats {Mcenianum) and another. (Calpurn. Eel. vi. 47.) The objectof this was to prevent the differentclasses of spectators from passingover from the places assigned totheir respective orders into otherparts of the building where they werenot entitled to sit; as for instance,from an upper circle into a lowerone. The illustration presents aview in the larger theatre at Pom-peii, and shows a portion of twomceniana, or tiers of seats, separatedby the balteus between them. Itwill be understood that this belt,which here is only a fragment, ranuninterruptedly round the entirerange of seats. The visitors, uponentering the theatre, walked round the covered gallery shown
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