INDEX.

A.

Abacus, page 74, 83, 95.

Abaton, 50.

Abderites, 167.

Abutments, 148.

Acanthus, in the Corinthiancapital, 82.

Accius, the poet, 206.

Achaia, 42, 81.

’AKpofiaTocoQ, 231.

Acids, -wonderful nature of, 190,et seq.

Acroteria, 77—Represented, 280.Actors, comic and tragic, 115.Adjustment, 63.

Adriatic Sea, 42, 56, 57.iEolipile, 21.iEqui, in Italy, 191.iEschylus, 154.iEsculapius, 12, 155.iEthiops of the south, 183.—Lake of ^Ethiopia, 187.iEtna, 41.

Africa, prolific of wild beasts,192.—African plains, 184.Africus, 22.

Agatharchus, 154.

Agesistratus, 155.

Agetor, of Byzantium, 262.Aisles, or wings, of courts, 136.Alabandines, 167.

Albanse, stone quarries of, 43.Albula, river, 185.

Alder, 180.

Alexander, 29, et seq. 151, 190.Alexandria, 30, 152, 153, 174,207, 220.

Alexis, the comedian, 128.

Alps, 56, 58, 183, 190.

Altanus, 24.

Altars of the Gods, how to beplaced, 92, 98.

Altinum, 17.

Amalgamation, 170, 171.'A/xa^oTTodsQ, 260.

Amiternine stone quarries, 43.Ammon, 187.

Amphiprostylos, 66. — Plan ofan amphiprostyle temple, 276.’AfMpipevcng, a machine, 235.Amphitheatre, 27.

Amphorae (cullearia), 143.Analemma, 207; on the con-struction of dials by the, 220;formation of the, 223.Anaporicum, a winter dial, 225.Anatona, capitals, 253.Anaxagoras Clazomenius, 151,154, 177, 219.

Ancona, 57.

Ancones (trusses), or prothy-rides, 94.

Andrias, 223.

Andrones, 146.

Andronicus Cyrrhestes, 22.Angle-tiles, 159.

Angles, 66; of a portico, 122.Anician stone quarries, 43.Anisocyclon, an engine, 231.Antes in buildings, 66, 145, 147;

represented, 276.

’Avrr/xovvTSQ, places that re-sound, 116.

Anterides, counter-forts, 148.Anthrax, 170.

Antibasis, 253, 256.

Antiboreus, a dial, 223.Antimachides, anAthenian archi-tect, 155.

Antiochus, king, 155.

Antipater, 190, 219.

Antistates, 155.

Antithalamus, 145.

Apollonia, 187, 266.

Apollonians, 266.

Apollonius, 9, 223.

Apulia, 17.