Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Reticulatus

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. 

RETICULA'TUS. Literally, that which is formed like a net, or in a pattern like net-work.

1. Reticulata structura. Reticulatum opus. A method of constructing walls very common in Italy during the later days of the republican and early part of the imperial period, the external appearance of which presented a reticulated pattern, like the meshes of a net, as shown by the division marked A in the annexed wood-cut (Reticulatus/1.1), which exhibits at a view the different constructive arrangements adopted by the ancient builders. The one in question was formed by small stones, or by blocks of tufo, cut into a die, which, instead of being laid on their sides, were placed upon the sharp edge, so as to fit into one another like wedges. This method of construction, though extremely pleasing to the eye, has the great defect of wanting durability, in consequence of the tendency which such walls have to settle into cracks. Vitruv. ii. 8. 1. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 51.

2. Reticulata fenestra. A lattice, i. e. a window protected by small bars of wood or metal, crossing each other in a reticulated pattern. Varro, R. R. iii. 7. 3.

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