Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Aedicula

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

AEDIC'ULA. A shrine, tabernacle, or canopy, with a frontispiece supported by columns, constructed within the cella of a temple, and under which the statue of the divinity was placed — quadrigae inauratae in Capitolio positae in cella Jovis supra fastigium aediculae. (Liv. xxxv. 41.) The illustration (Aedicula/1.1) represents the statue of Jupiter under a tabernacle in the Capitoline temple, as described by Livy in the passage quoted, and is taken from a medal struck in honour of the Vestal virgin, Aelia Quirina.

2. A small cabinet made of wood after the model of a temple, in which the family busts or images of a man's ancestors (imagines majorum), the Lares, and tutelar deities of a house were preserved, and placed in large cases round the atrium. (Pet. Sat. xxix. 8.) The illustration (Aedicula/2.1) is copied from a bas-relief in the British Museum, and represents an aedicula, in which the bust of Protesilaus is deposited. Compare Ovid. Her. xiii. 150 — 158.

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  Aedicula/1.1
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  Aedicula/2.1