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Title: 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
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ue of Laocoon was found ;the thermae of Caracalla, or Anto-niance, on the Aventine (Spart. Cara-call. 9. Eutrop. viii. 11.), in which THERMAE. 657 were found the statues of the FarneseHercules, the Flora Farnese, andthe group of Dirce, tied by Zethusand Amphion to a wild bull, all pre-served in the Bourbon Museum atNaples ; and the ihermm of Diocletian,covering parts of both the Viminaland Quirinal, a single room of whichwas converted by Michel Angelointo a church, Santa Maria degliAngeli, the largest, after St. Peters,in Rome. The annexed illustration shows the ground-plan of the thermceof Caracalla, from a survey made bythe Italian architect Pardini, with afew slight alterations in the restoredportions, adopted in conformity withthe gymnasium at Ephesus, of whicha plan is inserted p. 324., and which,by comparison with the present one,will testify the general uniformity ofprinciple existing in the distributionand design of these two classes ofbuildings. The dark parts exhibit - TTTtt
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the actual remains ; the light onesare restorations, but sufficiently au-thorised by corresponding portionsstill existing, as will readily appearupon an accurate inspection of theopposite sides. The names and usesassigned to each apartment, or divi-sion of the edifice, must be under-stood as being to a certain extentuncertain and conjectural, exceptingwhere the traces left in the ruins are sufficient to demonstrate of them*selves the original intention; butstill, by affixing names to them, theobject will be served of conveyingto the reader, in a concise form, aclear and distinct notion of the mag-nificence of these edifices, and of thenumber, variety, and general dispo-sition of the dependencies containedin them; for the thermae of Diocle-tian, though built upon a still larger4 P 658 THERMAE. scale, are laid out upon a plan ex-actly similar in all their essentialparts. a a. A colonnade fronting thestreet, annexed to the original build-ing by Heliogabalus in part, andcompleted by Alexa

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