Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Substructio

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. 

SUBSTRUC'TIO (ἀνάλημμα). A wall, pier, buttress, or any work of like nature, constructed underground as a foundation (Vitruv. vi. 11. 5.); or above ground as an underprop to support a superincumbent structure (Liv. xxxviii. 28. Dionys. iii. 69.); such, for example, as the elder Tarquin is reputed to have raised on the Capitoline hill, for the purpose of forming a level platform as a site for the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, some remains of which are still extant; or those on the sde of the same hill facing the forum, which were executed by Q. Catulus as a support for the tabularium (Inscript. ap. Orelli, 3267.), and still remain exposed to view in a state of considerable preservation.