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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Isodomos

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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. 

ISOD'OMOS (ἰσόδομος). One of the styles of masonry adopted by the Greek architects in which every stone was cut and squared to the same height, so that when laid, the courses were all regular and equal. (Vitruv. ii. 8. 6. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 51.) A specimen is exhibited by the annexed woodcut (Isodomos/1.1), representing a fragment of the old wall which formed the substruction of the Capitoline temple; consequently, dating as far back as the legendary era of the Roman monarchy.

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