Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pseudisodomum

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. 

PSEUDISOD'OMUM (ψευδισόδομον). One of the earlier and less perfect styles of masonry in use amongst the Greeks, in which the stones, though laid in regular courses, were not all of corresponding size or height; consequently, though all the courses were parallel, and every stone in the same course of one height, yet the respective dimensions of each course differed from the others, which produced the effect of false equality indicated by the term. (Vitruv. ii. 8. 6. Plin. H. N. xxxxvi. 51. and compare ISODOMUM.) The illustration (Pseudisodomum/1.1) represents one of the entrances into the ancient citadel of Mycenae, and consequently affords a very early instance of the style.

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  Pseudisodomum/1.1