Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Antae

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

ANTAE (παράσταδες). Square pilasters (Non. s. v. p. 30.), which are used as a termination to the side walls of a temple (Antae/1.1), when those side walls are projected beyond the face of the cella, or main body of the building. (Vitruv. iv. 4. 1.) As one of these pilasters is required on each side to form a corresponding support, the word is always used in the plural; and thus a temple is said to be in antis or ἐν παραστάσι (Vitruv. iii. 2. 2.), when the porch is formed by the projection of the side walls, terminated, as described, by two square pilasters, which have two columns between them.

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  Antae/1.1