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Mesaulae.

Metoche.

Metopae.

Monopteral.

Monotriglyph.

The maeniana were probably the divisions comprised betweentwo columns of the upper porticoes, corresponding to theboxes of a modern theatre. They were called maenianaafter Maenius, who, when he sold his house adjoining theforum, is said to have reserved to himself the right of onecolumn, or, more properly speaking, an extent of frontfrom one column to the next adjoining; whence he mightview the exhibitions in the forum. There is an inscriptiongiven by Marangoni in his Dissertatione delle memoire sacree profane del Anfiteatro Flavio, published in Rome 1746:in which the word menianum occurs three times. It theremeans the several ranges of seats.

The middle courts of a Greek house; situated betweenthe courts of the andronitis and gynaeconitis.

The intervals between two denticuli in the Ionicentablature. The Greek word ywxh signifies the act ofpartaking in common with others; which meaning seemsto have no reference to the interval between the denticuli.Perhaps oyjs, which signifies a stay, may be allowed to applyto the asseres, or rafters of a roof; the projecting ends ofwhich the denticuli may be said to represent. SeeMetopae.

The spaces between two triglyphs in the Doric entablature.Derived from i^srd, between, and oW, the cubilia, or placesupon which the beams rest.

A temple which has no cella, but consists of columnsdisposed in the form of a circle, covered with a conicalroof. Derived from pom, only, and wrepbv, a wing, or rangeof columns.

The interval observed between the columns of a Doricportico, when a space was left sufficient for the insertionof one triglyph only, between those immediately over twocontiguous columns. Derived from one, and tpfytopos.

Ornaments in the Doric corona placed over every triglyph

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Mutules.