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Example sentences for "peristylium"

Lexicographically close words:
peristaltic; peristome; peristomial; peristyle; peristyles; perit; perithecia; peritoneal; peritoneum; peritonitis
  1. Armed with all these necessaries, he made his way back to the lararium without again crossing the peristylium where the soldiers were assembled.

  2. Along the side of this tribunal hall and that of the peristylium and its adjoining offices, ran a long portico connecting the whole suite of halls together.

  3. From the great quadrangle of the peristylium we pass to the grand audience chamber, the position of which corresponds generally to that of the atrium of a Roman house.

  4. But before he could speak further, to the din of the fighting at the doors of the peristylium was added a second clamour without.

  5. Already Drusus's reinforcements in the peristylium had become so numerous and so well armed that the young chieftain was pushing back the gladiators and rapidly assuming the offensive.

  6. When he was gone, for Cornelia the sun shone brighter, and the tinkling of the water in the fountain in the peristylium sounded sweeter than before.

  7. Just as they did so, a howl of many voices proclaimed that the peristylium door had yielded.

  8. The columns of the peristylium are covered with yellow stucco and its chambers are floored with mosaic.

  9. Opening out from the peristylium is the Lararium, or room of the household gods.

  10. Roman part, and the peristylium with its developments, forming the Greek part; and the house reflects the composite character of Roman life in its later period, just as do Roman literature and Roman art.

  11. In Pompeii, which was an old Greek town with Roman life and habits superadded, we find atrium and peristylium both together as early as the second century B.

  12. The Greek part of the house, the peristylium and its belongings, was reserved for his family and his most intimate friends.


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