Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Velarium

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. 

VELA'RIUM. An awning spread over the uncovered part of a theatre or amphitheatre (Juv. iv. 124.), where the spectators sat, and which was otherwise open to the sky. It was made to draw by means of ropes and pullies fixed to a number of masts (wood-cut s. MALUS, 2.), planted round the outside wall; and it was not always drawn, but only on certain occasions, announced by an affiche or notice (album) chalked up in prominent parts of the town. Inscript. s. SPARSIO.