Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pergula

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. 

PER'GULA. Literally, and in a general sense, any kind of building added on to the side of a house or other edifice, beyond the original ground-plan, as an outhouse or lean-to, like the outbuilding in front of the annexed landscape (Pergula/1.1), representing a country-house or farm, in one of the Pompeian paintings. (Plaut. Pseud. i. 2. 84. Pet. Sat. 74.) Whence the following more special senses: —

2. A stall or balcony constructed over the colonnades of a forum, and abutting from the buildings adjacent; chiefly intended for the occupation of bankers and money changers. Plin. H. N. xxi. 6. and compare MAENIANUM.

3. A painter's exhibition-room; a large outbuilding in which the artists of antiquity were accustomed to expose their works to public view, when finished. Lucil. ap. Lactant. i. 22. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. § 12. Cod. Theodos. 13. 4. 4.

4. A lecture room in which any of the arts or sciences were taught. Suet. Gramm. 18. Juv. xi. 137. Vopisc. Saturn. 10.

5. An observatory at the top of a house for taking astronomical observations. Suet. Aug. 94.

6. In vineyards and gardens a long covered walk, over which the vines were trained to a framework of wood or trellis, as in the annexed example (Pergula/6.1) from a painting of the Nasonian sepulchre. (Liv. xiv. 3. Columell. iv. 21. 2. Id. xi. 2. 32.) The modern Italians retain the word "la pergola" in the same sense.

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  Pergula/1.1
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  Pergula/6.1