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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient architecture, a species of painted pavement used by the Romans before the invention of mosaic work.
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“When I had read those inscriptions, I admired the beauty of the temple, and particularly the disposition of its pavement, with which no work that is now, or has been under the cope of heaven, can justly be compared; not that of the Temple of Fortune at Praeneste in Sylla's time, or the pavement of the Greeks, called asarotum, laid by Sosistratus at Pergamus.”
“Praeneste in Sylla’s time, or the pavement of the Greeks, called asarotum, laid by Sosistratus at Pergamus.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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