cippus
Americannoun
plural
cippiEtymology
Origin of cippus
1615–25; < Latin: pillar, gravestone
Example Sentences
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Jupiter, on a cippus with a curious relief of Claudia drawing the boat with the image of the Magna Mater up the Tiber.
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Mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum H�c dabat; heredes monumentum ne sequeretur.
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Mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum Hic dabat, heredes monumentum ne sequeretur.
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Cippus, sip′us, n. the stocks: a monumental pillar.
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Sepulchral cippus of Anaxicrates with an amphora carved in low relief.
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