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ANTAE. ANTEFIXA. 97
classes, and then not made of costly material, as may as the columns; in the intercolumniations there
be inferred from the price (one drachma) in the two should be a marble balustrade, or somne other kind
instances above referred to. There are several of railing, with gates in it; if the breadth of the
celebrated rings with magic powers, mentioned portico exceeds forty feet, there should be another
by the ancient writers, as that of Gyges which pair of columns behind those between the mstcre,
he found in a grave (Plat. de Rel:publ. ii. p. and a little thinner than they; besides other and
359, &c.; Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 4), that of Chari- minor details. (Vitruv. iv. 4.)
cleia (I-Ieliod. A/eth. iv. 8), and the iron ring of In the pure Greek architecture, the ancae have
Eacrates (Lucian, Ph5lops. 17). Compare Becker, no other capitals than a succession of simple mioutldC(iikhles, vol. ii. p. 398, &c.; Kirchmlann, de An- illgs, sometimes ornamented with leaves and ai'asnulls, Slesvig. 1657; P. Burnmann, de Jure AnLetu- besques, and no bases, or very simple ones; it is
loruem, Ultraject. 1734. [L. S.] only in the later (Roman) stale, that they have
ANNUS. [CALENDARIUM.] capitals and bases resembling those of the columns
ANQUISI'TIO. [JunE.] between them. The auntae weie generally of the
ANSA'/TAE HASTAE. [HASTA.] same thickness throughout; the only instance of
ANTAE (7rapa-cSd&es), were originally posts or their tapering is in one of the temples of Paestum.
pillars flanking a doorway. (Festus, s. v. Antes.) In a Greek private house the entrance was
They were of a square form, and are, in fact, to be flanked by a pair of antae with no columns beregarded rather as strengthened terminations of tween them; and the space thus enclosed was itself
the walls than as pillars affixed to them. There called 7rapaeerds. (Vitrtlv. vi. 1 0. s. 7. ~ 1. Schn.)
is no clear case of the application of the word to So also Euripides uses the term to denote either
detached square pillars, although Nonins explains the pronaos of a temple (Ipph. in T7aur, 1126), or
it by quadruae colzemnae (1. ~ 124). the vestibule of a palace. (Ie'loen. 415.)
The chief use of anture was in that fornm of The following are the chief of the other passages
temple, which was called, from them, in alstis (eabs in which aucae or 7rapa'ra'8es are mentioned:Eiv rapaaTr'di),' which Vitruvius (iii. 1. s. 2 ~ 2, Eurip. Acsdross. 1121, where rapaardb8os epCelaGo&
Schn.) describes as having, in front, antae attached signifies tile armls suspended from one of the antae
to the walls which enclosed the clala; and in the of the temple; Cratin. Dioduys. Fr. 9, ap. Polluc.
middle, between the antae, two columns supporting vii. 122, x. 25, Meineke, Fr'. Comn. Graec. vol. ii.
the architrave. The ruins of temples, corresponding p. 42; Xen. Hier. xi. 2: Hero, Aufoen. p. 269
to the description of Vitruvius, are found in Greece Inscssrip. p.. Gruter. p. 207. See. also Stieglitz,
and Asia Minor; and we here exhibit as a speci- Arelhol/oqie der Baulk'unst, vol. i. pp. 236-242.
moen a restoration of the front of the temple of [TEMPLUM.] [P. S.]
Artemis Propylaea, at Eleusis, together with a ANTEAMBULO'NES, were slaves who were
plan of the pronaos: accustomed to go before their masters, in order to
make way for them through the crowd. (Suet.
esp. 2.) They usually called out date locunm
domino mseo; and if this were not sufficient to
clear the way, they used their hands and elbows
dl'-f-lI:-~ -I_ X.l.... for that purpose. Pliny relates an amusing tale of:,,9,i I IW ain individual who was roughly handled by a
Roman knight, because his slave had presumed to
touch the latter, in order to make way for his!~li i'illl P master. (Ep. iii. 14.) The term antearmbulones'was also given to the clients, who were accustomed
to walk before their patroni when the latter apHlb$ KIlLKBk!peared in public. - (Martial, ii. 18, iii. 7, x. 74.)
ANTECESSO'RES, called also ANTECURSO'RES, were horse-soldiers, who were accustomed
to precede an army on the march, in order to choose
a suitable place for the camp, and to make the
ta U —- -L-] necessary provisions for the army. They were not
merely scouts, like the speculatores. (Hirt. Bell.
B_ Ai. 12, svho speaks of speculatore s et antecessores
BP4 ~ a, equi/tes; Suet. Vitell. 17 Caes. B. G. v. 47.)
This name was also given to the teachers of the'Roman law. (Cod. 1. tit. 17. s. 2. ~ 9. 11.)
ANTECOENA. [CoeNA.]
A A Slze tANTEFIXA, terra-cttas, which exhibited various ornamental designs, and were used in archiA/.....Y tecture, to cover the frieze (zop/sors) or cornice
of the entablature. (Festus, s. v.) These terraLw -~~ I ~~~cottas do not appear to have been used among the
A, A /e a/ac n n /1c cc/la, Greeks, but were probably Etrurian in their origin,
and were thence taken for the decoration of Roman
Vitruvius gives the following rules for a temple buildings.
in antis of the Doric order: - The breadth should The name antefixa is evidently derived from the
be half the length; five-eighths of the length should circumstance that they were fixed befolre the
be occupied by the cella, including its front walls, buildings which they adorned; and- inmany mthe remaining three-eighths by the pronsaos or stances they have been found fastened to the
portico; the ant/ae should be of the same thickness frieze with leaden nails. They were formed in
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