Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pseudoperipteros

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. 

PSEUDOPERIP'TEROS (ψευδοπερίπτερος). Pseudoperipteral; a term employed to designate an edifice that appears to have a colonnade all round, which, in reality, it does not possess; the walls of the cell being merely furnished with half or three-quarter columns to correspond with the isolated ones of the porch. (Vitruv. iii. 2.) By such an arrangement more room was afforded for the interior, as is clearly shown by the example (Pseudoperipteros/1.1), representing the ground-plan of the temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome, while the distribution of the columns or the flanks suggests the notion of a colonnade, as may be seen by the illustration s. PRONAOS, which exhibits a design of the same style in elevation.

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  Pseudoperipteros/1.1