. 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. annexed engraving, from a terra-cottalamp. GRADFLIS. See Panis, 2. GRADUS. A set of bed-steps,consisting of several stairs (Varro, v. 168.), which were requisite step by which he entered the porch(Vitruv. iii. 4. 4.) ; the superstitionof the people leading them to think acontrary course ill-omened. 3. The
. 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. annexed engraving, from a terra-cottalamp. GRADFLIS. See Panis, 2. GRADUS. A set of bed-steps,consisting of several stairs (Varro, v. 168.), which were requisite step by which he entered the porch(Vitruv. iii. 4. 4.) ; the superstitionof the people leading them to think acontrary course ill-omened. 3. The seats upon which the spec-tators sat in a theatre, amphitheatre,or circus. (Inscript. ap. Marini. pp. 130. 23. Compare TesseraTheatralis.) These were deepsteps rising over one another in tiers,as shown by the annexed view fromthe larger theatre at Pompeii, inwhich the seats (gradus) are the. when the bedstead was of such aheight from the ground that it couldnot be reached by a simple illustration represents Didosmarriage bed in the Vatican Virgil,with a set of these steps at its foot. 2. A flight of steps leading up tothe porch (pronaos) of a temple.(Cic. Att. iv. 1. Virg. JEn. i. 448.)In Greek temples it usually con-sisted of only three steps ; but theRoman architects added a dozen ormore, and sometimes divided theminto two flights, as in the annexed
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