Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Podium

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. 

POD'IUM. A low basement, projecting like a step from the wall of a room or building, and intended to form a raised platform for the convenience of depositing other articles upon; as, for instance, a row of bee-hives (Pallad. i. 38. 2.); a number of wine casks in a cellar (Id. i. 18. 2.); or any object whether of ornament or use, such as shown by the annexed illustration (Podium/1.1), representing the interior of a tomb at Pompeii, on which three cinerary urns are situated.

2. In an amphitheatre or a circus, a basement raised about eighteen feet above the level of the arena, which it circumscribed, intended for the occupation of the emperor, the curule magistrates, and the Vestal virgins, who sat there upon their ivory stools (sellae curules). Suet. Nero, 12. Juv. ii. 147. See the section of the amphitheatre at Pola, p. 29., on which the podium is marked A.

3. A socle or zocle in architecture; i. e. a projecting basement on the outside of a building, serving to raise pedestals, or to support vases or other ornaments, being itself plain, without either cornice or base. Vitruv. iii. 4. 5.

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