Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trichila

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. 

TRICH'ILA, TRICH'ILUM, TRIC'LA and TRIC'LIA. A bower, or a summer-house, constructed in the pleasure-grounds of a villa, or other locality, to afford a shady retreat for dining in during genial weather. (Virg. Copa. 8 Inscript. ap. Orelli, 4517. 4456. Caes. B. C. iii. 96. Compare Prop. iv. 8. 35. seqq.) It was frequently formed of wood and trellis-work, over which vines, gourds, and other parasitical plants were trained (Columell. x. 378.); but sometimes as a permanent building, decorated with columns and other objects of art (Inscript. ap. Orelli, 2909.), like our summer-house; as shown by the illustration (Trichila/1.1), which exhibits a view of one of these retreats with its dining-table, bases of masonry intended for receiving the mattresses of three tricliniary couches, and fountain in front, all as they exist in a perfect state of preservation in the house of Actaeon at Pompeii.

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