Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fori

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. 

FORI. Plural of FORUS. The ship’s floors (Latin and Anglo-Saxon Glossary of the 10th century). This includes the flooring of the deck (Gell. xvi. 19. 3.); the gangways by which the mariners passed about the vessel (Cic. Sen. 6. Lucan. iii. 630.), those between the rowers' benches (Virg. Aen. vi. 412.), and perhaps the benches themselves. Isidor. Orig. xix. 2.

2. The standing-places on a temporary platform erected for the accommodation of spectators at a public show. Liv. i. 35. Festus, s. Forum.

3. The floors, one above the other, by which the Roman agriculturists sometimes divided their beehives (Virg. G. iv. 250.) into a number of separate stories; as shown by the annexed example (Fori/1.1), from an original of bronze discovered at Pompeii. The left-hand figure shows the outside; the right-hand one, a section of the inside divided into stories; and the top one the moveable lid with its handle.

4. Narrow furrows in a field or garden formed into parallel lines by the hoe. Columell. x. 92. 1.

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