Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scena (part of theatre)

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. 

SCE'NA (σκηνή). The scene of an ancient theatre; under which name were included the stage on which the actors performed, and the scenes, in our sense, consisting of a permanent wall at the back of the stage, with three doors; the one in the centre, through which the chief actor entered, being termed the royal door (valvae regiae), and the two lateral ones (hospitales, Vitruv. v. 6. 8.), all of which are distinctly marked on the illustration annexed (Scena_1/1.1), which exhibits the scena of the great theatre at Pompeii in its present state; as well as the movable side-scenes, adapted for the representation of any particular locality, in which the subject of the piece was supposed to take place, and distinguished by the epithets versatiles and ductiles (Serv. ad Virg. Georg. iii. 24.) accordingly as they were constructed to turn round on a pivot, or to slide forward in a groove.

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