Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Emplecton

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EMPLEC'TON (ἔμπλεκτον). A method of constructing walls introduced by the Greeks, and copied by the Roman architects, in which the outside surfaces on both sides were formed of ashlar laid in regular courses as shown by the upper part of the annexed illustration (Emplecton/1.1) (letter E), and the central space between them filled in with rubble work (G), layers of cross stones (diatoni, F) being placed at intervals in regular courses, and of sufficent size to extend through the entire thickness of the wall from side to side, and so act as girders to bind the whole together. Vitruv. ii. 8. 7. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 51.

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