The private houses in Borne were of two kinds: the insula and the domus.
Another title for Michael, or insula; see ante, p. 147, note 13.
Ogygia, name of Ireland, or of the insula Hyperboreorum, 437.
Here, in short, is the record of an oblong 'insula' in the Roman town of Orange.
Domus, a house, meant a dwelling occupied by one family, whether it were an insula or not.
In the ocean to the west of Ireland we find for the first time on this map an island called “insula de montonis siue de brazile.”
insula abundat cervis et maxime cuniculis: liquiricium (lege glycyrrhizum) habet.
Phrygians, their reference to the insula Hyperboreorum, 436;traces of their costume in the sculptures at Knockmoy, 437.
Est in insula Oceani castum nemus, dicatum in eo vehiculum, veste contectum, attingere uni sacerdoti concessum.
It occupies the southernmost portion of an insula extending backwards to the city walls.
Latin, literally "an island" (also, in ancient Rome, "a block of buildings"); see isle.
insula in·su·la (ĭn'sə-lə, ĭns'yə-)
n. pl. -lae (-lē')
Island.
A circumscribed body or patch on the skin.
See island of Reil.
