Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Replum

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. 

REPLUM. (Vitruv. iv. 6. 5.) An upright rail fixed in the centre of the frame of a doorcase, and stretching from the lintel to the sill, in order to serve the purpose of a rebate, and guard the crevice formed by the juncture of the two valves, as shown by the annexed example (Replum/1.1), representing an ancient bronze door in its original state, which formerly belonged to the temple of Remus, now converted into the church of S. Cosmo and Damiano, at Rome. The ground-plan at the bottom, where it appears in the centre, exhibits the manner in which the rebate closed over the juncture; and the elevation shows one leaf of the door closed against it; if both valves were open, it will be readily perceived that it would remain, like an isolated upright, in the centre of the entire opening. The interpretation here given cannot, however, be accepted as certain, for the precise meaning of the word is much controverted, and there are no authorities, beyond the bare mention of the term in the one quoted, to establish a decision.

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