quadratum

Agmen quadratum was a formation that saw an army of sufficient strength spread in columns across a wide front, ready in an instant to wheel and take up battle stations.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The Romans, she noted, based many buildings "on the geometry of the square and its diagonal, the ad quadratum."

Don't Be a Square 2007

Agmen quadratum was a formation that saw an army of sufficient strength spread in columns across a wide front, ready in an instant to wheel and take up battle stations.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The street is bordered on either side by walls made of opus quadratum (regular rectangular courses), made of ashlars with drafted edges (see Colonnaded Street, July 10-13, 2006).

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3 2003

Early scholars declared that this technique (called opus quadratum) was one of the oldest building styles in Pompeii and, therefore, the House of the Surgeon must be one of the oldest houses in the city.

Interactive Dig Pompeii - Journals 2001

Here archaeologists have found evidence that opus quadratum and opera a telaio, kinds of masonry long thought to date from discrete phases, were in use at the same time.

The New Pompeii 1997

Dated according to the traditional chronology, the insula's House of Amarantus, which is built of limestone opus quadratum and opera a telaio, should belong to the third century B.C. or earlier.

The New Pompeii 1997

[90] The early writers on Algebra used _numerus_ for the absolute or known term, _res_ or _cosa_ for the first power, _quadratum_ for the second, and

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

In the former the lower jaw is composed of several pieces, and connected with the skull so that it can move by a special maxillary bone (the quadratum); in the Mammals the lower jaw consists of one pair of bony pieces, which articulate directly with the temporal bone.

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

The earliest have on the one side the figure of a monarch bearing the diadem and armed with the bow and javelin, while on the other there is an irregular indentation of the same nature with the _quadratum incusum_ of the Greeks.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857