Identifier: dictionaryofgree00smit_1 (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rs were paved with DOMUS. pieces of tricks, tiles, stones, &c, forming a kindof composition called ruderatio. (Vitruv. vii. 1.)Another kind of pavement was that called opusSigninum, which was a kind of plaster made oftiles beaten to powder and tempered with mortar.It derived its name from Signia, a town of Italy,celebrated for its tiles. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 46.)Sometimes pieces of marble were imbedded in acomposition ground, which appear to have formedthe floors called by Pliny barbarica or subtegulanea,and which probably gave the idea of mosaics. Asthese floors were beaten down (pavita) with ram-mers (fistucae), the word pavimentum became thegeneral name for a floor. The kind of pavementcalled scalpturatum was first introduced in thetemple of Jupiter Capitolinus after the beginning ofthe third Punic war, but became quite common inRome before the beginning of the Cimbric war.(Id. xxxvi. 61.) Mosaics, called by Pliny litho-strota (Xidocrrpara), though this word has a more DOMUS. 431
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extensive meaning, first came into use in Sullastime, who made one in the temple of Fortune atPraeneste. (Id. xxxvi. 64.) Mosaic work was

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