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INDEX.

Basin (catinum), 317-Basis, base, 101. 306. 319. 336.

Baths, their arrangement and parts, 152. 181.

Bear, Great and Little, constellations, 279.

Beams (trabes), 104; lintel beams, 174; well-wrought beams, 128.

333. 336. 338; small beams, 339; see representation, 366.Beams (tigna), 104. 296. 299- 333. 338.

Beater (bacillus), 47-Beaters, 200. 256.

Beauty, in building, how produced, 15.

Bed-chambers, 184.

Bedas, of Byzantium, statuary, 76.

Beds, of beams (columbaria), 103 ; of beams and rafters, 106. 113.56; of stones, 56.

Berosus, the Chaldean, 273. 282. 287-Bitumen, 23. 50. 241.

Black (atramentum), 221. 208.

Black, colour (coracinus), 243.

Block (trochlea), 299.

Blocks, of stone, 306.

Blue, colour, 222.

Blue-eyed People, 166.

Body, of the roof, 172.

Boeotia, 243.

Bond (coagmentum), 44. 56.113. 188.

Bondstones, harovoi, 58; represented, 350.

Borysthenes, 235.

Bossed nails (clavi muscarii), 206.

Box, 319; small, 322; dove-tailed, 326; of the drum-wheel, 322,Braces, capreoli, 326. 324,

Braces, in the tortoise, 336.

Brass, Corinthian, 249.

Brass Barrels, with moveable bottoms, 319.

Brass Coin, 80.

Brass Founders, 54.

Bressummers (trabes), 104.