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| divination by looking for signs in the sky such as flocks of birds over a particular area |
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| the Roman surveyor responsible for laying out an Urbs quadrata or grid city |
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| a Roman theater in the round (usually oval) in which large audiences gathered to be entertained by circus-like spectacles and gladiatorial combat |
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| in Roman domestic architecture an inner court open to the sky and surrounded by rood |
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| the hot bath in a Roman bath house |
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| the hollow of a Greek or Roman theater |
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| a tall slender order with a capital representing leaves of the acanthus plant, said to have originated in Corinth (not far from Mycenae) in the Greek Peloponnesus. This order was much used by the Romans for temples. |
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| the cold bath in a Roman bath house |
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| in architectural contexts, the alignment of facades at right angles rather than obliquely to the viewer's line of sight |
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| an under floor heating system used in Roman baths |
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| the pool that collected rainwater in a Roman parastyle courtyard |
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| 'islands', apartment blocks for the poor in Roman cities |
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| a hole dug at the intersection of the founding Cardo and Decumanus in which the first fruits of the harvest were placed as an offering to the spirits of the dead |
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| the circular ditch plowed to define the limit of the city in the traditional Roman founding ceremony |
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| an unreinforced building material consisting of a cement bonding agent with aggregates of various kinds of stone from heavy to light, depending upon the structural need |
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| the mythical twins who founded Rome April 21, 753 BC |
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| early Roman dictator who used his army to stage a coup d'etat |
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| in the Roman house, a room with one side open to the atrium or central courtyard |
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| the sky divided into four imaginary quadrants for the purposes of aeromancy |
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| in the Roman baths, the bath of moderate temperature |
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| the City of Rome's main river |
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| the dining room in a Roman house |
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| a Roman city on the gridiron plan in which every north/south street is a Cardo and every west/east street is a Decumanus |
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| volcanic mountain responsible for burying Pompeii and Herculaneum under between 13 and 20 feet of mud and ash on Aug 24, 79 AD |
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| two story house with balcony above |
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