analemma
ănălemmă, ătis, n., = ἀνάλημμα,
- a sundial which showed the latitude and meridian of a place, Vitr. 9, 4.
analēmma, matos, Genet. Plur. matōrum, Dat. u. Abl. matis, n. (ἀνάλημμα), eine Figur, mittelst derer auf einer Sonnenuhr die Länge des Zeigerschattens beim Eintritt der Sonne in jedes Zeichen des Tierkreises auf der Mittagslinie bestimmt u. so die Polhöhe eines Ortes gefunden wurde, Vitr. 9, 1 (4). § 1; 9, 7 (8). § 6 u. 7.
analēmma, -atos , n. (ἀνάλημμα), épure (du cadran solaire) : Vitr. Arch. 9, 1, 1 ; 9, 6, 1 ; 9, 7, 6.
ANALEMMA
ANALEMMA(ἀνάλημμα), in its original meaning, is any thing raised or supported; it is applied in the plural to walls built on strong foundations. (Hesych., Suid. s. v.) Vitruvius uses the word to describe an instrument which, by making the lengths of the shadows of a fixed gnomon, showed the different altitudes of the sun at the different periods of the year. (Vitr. 9.7, 8, s. 6, 7: Schneider.) It must not be confounded with the modern analemma, which is more complicated and precise than the instrument described by Vitruvius.
[P.S]Analemma
(ἀνάλημμα). (1) In the plural, walls built on strong foundations.
(2) An instrument used to show the different altitudes of the sun at the different periods of the year (Vitruv. ix. 7, 8. 6, 7). See Gnomon.