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Definition of Impluvia
1. impluvium [n] - See also: impluvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impluvia
Literary usage of Impluvia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1903)
"It is difficult to understand what circumire impluvia can here mean, except to
go round the impluvium, along the covered passages, out of which the doors ..."
2. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1844)
"It is difficult to understand what circumire impluvia can here mean, except to
go round the impluvium, along the covered passages, out of which the doors ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"May not the word umbrella h;ive been applied to various sorts of impluvia ?
Swift, in his "Description of a City Shower," says : — ** Now in contiguous ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... stragglers at forage or rioters after a victory, but in order of battle, and
with the array of an army. Choice plants or flowers about the impluvia and ..."
5. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"impluvia'TUS. A term used to designate some particular kind of garments worn by
females (Plant. Epid. ii. 2. 39.); but as it only occurs in reference to a ..."
6. The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of by Jeffrey S. Soles (1992)
"... crypt of Knossos;50 the basin in which it stands recalls those around the
bases of several pillars that Platon has identified as impluvia for libations; ..."
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