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1. diaulos, n. View full entry 1706
...A double course, in which the racers turned round a goal and returned to the starting point....
2. diazoma, n. View full entry 1706
...In the ancient Greek theatre: A semicircular passage through the auditorium, parallel to its outer border, and cutting the radial flights of steps at right angles at a point about half way...
3. exedra | exhedra, n. View full entry 1706
...Classical Archit....
4. frigidarium, n. View full entry 1706
...The cooling-room in a Roman bath....
5. lararium, n. View full entry 1706
...The part of a Roman house where the images of Lares or household gods were kept; hence, a private shrine or chapel....
6. lorica, n. View full entry 1706
...Roman Hist. A cuirass or corslet of leather....
7. magna precaria, n. View full entry 1706
...A day on which feudal tenants, on demand, performed harvest work for the lord of the manor....
8. monopteros, n. View full entry 1706
...A temple consisting of a single circle of columns supporting a roof....
9. municipium, n. View full entry 1706
...An Italian city or (later) one in the provinces whose citizens held the privileges of Roman citizens....
10. opisthodomos, n. View full entry 1706
...An apartment or vestibule (typically open) at the rear of an ancient Greek temple, situated within the portico and abutting the cella....
11. palla, n. View full entry 1706
...Roman Hist. A loose outer garment or wrap worn out of doors, usually by a woman; an outer robe, a mantle....
12. parapherna, n. View full entry 1706
...Roman Law. Those articles of property held by a wife over and above the dowry she brought to her husband, and which remained under her own control. Cf. paraphernalia1...
13. parascenium, n. View full entry 1706
...The part of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre on either side of the stage, in which props were stored and to which the actors retired. Cf. postscenium...
14. parhypate, n. View full entry 1706
...In ancient Greek music: the second lowest note in either of the two lowest tetrachords....
15. peribolos, n. View full entry 1706
...An enclosure, wall or colonnade around an ancient Greek (or Roman) temple or sacred space; the sacred space enclosed by this. Also occas.: any wall forming an enclosure....
16. pseudodipteron, n. View full entry 1706
...A pseudodipteral building, esp. a temple....
17. pseudoperipteros, n. View full entry 1706
...A form of temple or other building with free columns forming a portico in front (and sometimes in the rear) as in a peripteral building, but with the rest of the columns...
18. sagum, n. View full entry 1706
...A Roman military cloak; also, a woollen cloak worn by the ancient Gauls, Germans, and Spanish....
19. signum pantheum, n. View full entry 1706
...A statue or image combining the figures, symbols, or attributes of several (esp. classical) gods. Usu. in pl....
20. trochus, n. View full entry 1706
...Ancient Greek Hist. and Roman Hist. A wheel or hoop, used in athletic exercises or as a plaything....
