COLUMEN

COLUMEN
COLUMEN
loci nomen, apud Livium, l. 3. c. 23. Aliquot menses Tusculi bellatum, parte exercitus Consul castra Aequorum oppugnabat --- Victor ad Columen (id loco nomen est) exercitu relictô, castra locat. Et alter Consul, postquam maenibus Romanis iam pulsô hoste periculum esse desierat etc. Alias Columen materia suspensa, quae totius aedisicii fastigium percurrit ac sustinet, Vitruv. Quod eleganter ostendit Rutilius Numatianus, l. 1. v. 348. ubi propter versum culminis
voce utitur:
Parvula subrectis faciums tentoria remis,
Transversus subitô culmine contus erat.
Ubi male interpres, contum navalem erectum, cuspide in terram sixâ subitario aedificio culmen fuisse scribit. Ex columine columnam, ex vara vibiam. Imo remorum ordo pronorum ac fastigatorum cum ordine contrario ita iunctus, ut supremis in partibus leviter decussati essent, atque in terram statutus est. Huic superimpositus contus, ad quem revincirentur et contextum inter se opus haereret, Gronov. ad Thyestem Senecae, v. 54.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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