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His villas were dismantled, his town house pulled down, and a vote of the people obtained by Clodius for the consecration of its site as a _templum_ dedicated to Liberty, and a scheme was formed and the work actually commenced for occupying part of it by an extension of an existing porticus or colonnade (the _porticus

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

The other apse, for this is possibly the right meaning to assign to "porticus" in the following quotation, would have contained the altar of St. Paul, and the tomb of

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Derived from the Greek "portico" and the Latin "porticus," the porch was surely known in some form during those historical eras.

David Finkle: Stooping to the Highest Level 2009

We have indications that this cryptoporticos wall is preserved in our excavation area east of the porticus wall as we are at a depth where we can see the upper row of mortared tiles along the entire porticos wall.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Agora 1 2003

But first he had to get himself elected-don the specially chalked, snow-white toga of the candidate and move among the electors in every marketplace and basilica in Rome, not to mention arcades and colonnades, guilds and colleges, the porticus and the portico.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Other men, thought Pompey contemptuously, might build a basilica or a temple or a porticus, but Sulla builds a monument to Rome's bureaucracy!

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The _porticus Catuli_ had been, at any rate, partly demolished by Clodius to make way for his larger scheme of building, which was to take in part of Cicero's "site."

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero (_de Domo_, § 102) certainly implies that Clodius had, at any rate, partly pulled down the _porticus Catuli_, in order to build something on a larger scale, which was to take in some of Cicero's site.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

A _crypto porticus_ would thus be formed on the two longer sides of the bath, but the _schola_ on the east and west ends was open to the sky.

The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath Charles E. Davis

[24] "Itinerarium Cambriæ," b.i. chap.v. [25] "Ut qui modo linguam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent: inde etiam habitus nostri honor, et frequens toga; paullatimque discessum et dilinimenta vitiorum, porticus et balnea, et conviviorum elegantiam."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand