Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Orthostata

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. 

ORTHOS'TATA (ὀρθοστάτης). Literally, which stands upright; whence employed by architects to designate the front or facing of a wall, composed of different materials from the internal part of it; viz. of regularly laid bricks or ashlar outside an irregular mass of rubble (fartura), as in the annexed specimen (Orthostata/1.1) of Roman building. Vitruv. ii. 8. 4.

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  Orthostata/1.1