Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Magalia

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. 

MAGA'LIA and MAPA'LIA. Carthaginian words, designating in the language of that country the cottages of the rural population (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. i. 420. iv. 259.); which were slight huts made of reeds or cane (Sil. Ital. xvii. 88 — 89.); sometimes of a circular and conical form, like an oven (Cato, Orig. ap. Serv. l. c. Hieron. in prol. Amos); or at others of an oblong shape, with bulging sides, like the hull of a vessel (Sallust, Jug. 211), both of which models were also of common occurrence in other countries. The Romans described them by the words CASAE and CASULAE, where see the illustrations; and the example (Magalia/1.1) here introduced represents a German village of similar huts from the Column of Antoninus. Some scholars make a distinction between magalia and mapalia; thinking that the first word was used to designate the stationary huts of a village, the latter when they were placed upon carriages, and moveable from place to place (Heyne ad Virg. Aen. i. 421.); at all events, the first syllable of magalia is long, in mapalia short.

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  Magalia/1.1