Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Intermetium

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. 

INTERME'TIUM. The long, low barrier between the goals (metae) of a race course (Gloss. Philox.), which divided the course into two parts, as will be seen by referring to the ground-plan of the Circus of Caracalla, p. 165., on which it is marked B. One side of the course, with an elevation of the intermetium and metae at the back, is shown by the annexed illustration (Intermetium/1.1), from an engraved gem. The word, however, is only found in the Glossary above quoted; but Visconti (Mus. Pio Clem. v. p. 244.) thinks that it was the name originally employed before the more modern one SPINA was adopted, and again revived after that had fallen into disuse or received a different application.

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  Intermetium/1.1