Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anterides

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

ANTE'RIDES (ἐρείσματα). Buttresses built up against the outisde of a wall to support it if weak (Vitruv. vi. 8. 6.), seldom employed by the Greek or Roman architects, except to strengthen a foundation. The illustration (Anterides/1.1) shows the construction of the Cloaca Maxima at Rome, with external buttresses on each side of the masonry, as seen in an excavation superintended by Piranesi. These buttresses, however, are formed of a different stone from the rest of the work, and were not part of the original construction, but may be regarded as vestiges of the repairs which the sewers underwent upon the occasion alluded to by Dionysius (iii. 67.), when a sum of not less than 200,000l. of our money was laid out upon them.

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  Anterides/1.1