We may conclude, then, that the impluvium was sometimes ornamented with moss or flowers, unless the words cavis ædium may be extended to the court of the peristyle, which was commonly laid out as a garden.
The impluvium in the middle appears to have been under repair, as it is stripped of its marble lining.
Beyond the impluvium is the place of a small altar for the worship of the Lares.
In the restoration, the impluviumis surrounded with a mosaic border.
Below, lions' heads are placed along the cornice at intervals, forming spouts through which the water was discharged into the impluvium beneath.
Beside the impluvium stood a machine, now in the National Museum, for heating water, and at the same time warming the room if requisite.
He had been conducted past the soldiers in the vestibule andimpluvium to the lady's private rooms, and there he had been witness to a violent matrimonial dispute.
He had been captured in the impluvium by the praetorians while trying, in the face of every danger, to enter the house where the painter lay, to whose father he had belonged for many years.
But he withdrew it quickly, for from the impluvium arose the rattle of arms, and loud, confused noise.
A riotous party were toping and reveling in the beautiful garden of the impluvium round a fire which they had lighted on the velvet turf.
The impluvium was generally in marble and sunk about a foot below the floor of the atrium.
The water in the impluvium gleamed with the gold flanks of the fish that moved through its shadows.
Everything seemed sad and solemn, as though the stones could grieve; the lilies by the impluvium seemed adroop, and the flowers about Pelleas's bed were withered.
The two men in the impluviumwere not informed of the accident till some time later, for strict orders had been given that they were not to be disturbed.
So he begged him to accompany him to the impluvium of his private residence; and several office scribes who were present heard the invitation given.
The storm had long been raging around the house, which stood close by the sea, and the sailcloth awning which was stretched over the impluvium noisily rattled the metal rings that confined it.
That night, the most brilliant company which could then be culled out of the human race was assembled in the central impluvium of the Mamurran palace and its arcades.
In theimpluvium they found a little crowd surrounding Augustus, who had returned from his promenade to the camp, and who was throwing crumbs of bread among some pigeons near the central fountain.
As he left the court of the impluvium to seek his mother, he remarked that Claudius had returned thither, and was occupied in watering some flowers in pots at the opposite angle.
In the impluvium near the edge is the square pedestal of a fountain figure, which threw a jet into a round marble basin in front.
In order to have water at hand for building purposes, the masons had built a low wall around an old impluvium on the south side (shown on the plan, Fig.
At the rear of the impluvium is a fluted cistern curb of white marble (seen in Fig.
Cornelio Rufo; the carved table supports behind the impluvium are among the finest yet discovered.
On the edge of the impluvium at the rear is the pedestal of a fountain figure which threw a jet into a basin resting on two rectangular standards; the places of these, as well as the course of the feed pipe, are indicated on the plan.
Large dining room Peristyle Kitchen Tablinum Ala Atrium Impluvium Stairs Fauces] In arranging the pictures, the decorators had little regard for the order of events.
Two heavy girders were placed across the room, above the ends of the impluvium (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impluvium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
