cippus
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cippi
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Origin of cippus
1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone
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Over the capital is an iron balcony encompassing a cippus, or meta, 32 feet high, supporting a blazing urn of brass gilt.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
French savants here examine the ruins of the theatre and the immense Roman reservoirs in the hillside, and take "squeezes" of inscriptions marked upon the antique altar, column or cippus.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
In Greece and Asia Minor, it will be in most cases a "drum" from some antique column, or a funerary cippus, abstracted by the peasantry from some neighbouring ruin.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
A cippus stands at the corner to do the double duty of defining the limits of the basilica, and to keep the wheels of wagons from running up on the steps.
From A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Magoffin, Ralph Van Deman
Her weeping parents laid her in a cippus or avello between the two doors of S. Reparata, where the workmen, unable to finish their job before sunset, left the lid of her sepulcher unsoldered.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
The area is lined with stone cippi, placed at an interval of two and a half metres from one another.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Not the sight of illumined Rome, but the sight of a low and narrow bench, running along below the cippi and the sarcophagi, calmed his spirit.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
At regular intervals pale streaks of light lay across the pavement, falling through the windows, which, from among the tombstones, the cippi, and the pagan sarcophagi, look down upon Rome.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
Their cippi were found broken into fragments, their names half erased, and their ashes scattered to the four winds.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
The other cippi found in the ustrinum mention four other children of Germanicus, among them Caius Cæsar, the lovely child who was so much beloved by Augustus,185 and so deeply regretted by him.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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