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Definition of Cippus
1. n. A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
Definition of Cippus
1. the stocks [n CIPPI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cippus
Literary usage of Cippus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine, James Duncan (1852)
"E.—Bom- byr cippus, Fabr., Allot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., ii. pL 73. THE generic
name (which signifies resembling a snail) refers to the appearance of the ..."
2. Ovid by Ovid (1833)
"A NOBLE Roman, named cippus, while returning victorious to the city finds horns
... OR as when cippus in the current view'd The shooting horns that on his ..."
3. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"ground, her left band rests on the back part of the cippus on which is the
signature П. VIII f) Reverse. In general design a copy of the work of Ф VII a). ..."
4. History of Art in Phœnicia and Its Dependencies by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1885)
"174), a large rectangular stele, decorated on its face with a disk and crescent
moon in relief; right and left a pyramidal cippus with a double FIB. 172. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"One instance is the fine nude figure of Eros as a youth leaning against a cippus,
holding a bronze arrow in his hand, in the collection of M. de Branteghem, ..."
6. Exotic Moths by James Duncan (1858)
"E.—Bombyx cippus, Fabr., Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., ii. pi. 73. THE generic
name (which signifies resembling a snail) refers to the appearance of the ..."
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