cancelli
cancelli, a lattice, enclosure, grating, grate, balustrade, bars, railings, bar in a court of justice
- a lattice, enclosure, grating, grate, balustrade, bars, railings: ( = κιγκλίδες; Latini tamen cancellos non tantum fores τοῦ δικαστηρίου, sed etiam omne consaeptum appellant, Salmas. Hist. Aug. p. 483) scenici et theatri, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 4: aenei rivorum, Col. 8, 17, 6; the bar in a court of justice, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 59, § 135: tantus ex fori cancellis plausus excitatus, the barrier in public spectacles, id. Sest. 58, 124: circi, Ov. Am. 3, 2, 64: aedium, Dig. 30, 41, § 10; 33, 7, 12, § 26: fenestrarum, Aug. Trin. 11, 2: saepta cancellorum, Amm.30, 4, 19.—Of the reticulated skin of the elephant, Plin. 8, 10, 10, § 30; cf. cancello.—
- B Trop., boundaries, limits (so perh. only in Cic.): si extra hos cancellos egredi conabor, quos mihi ipse circumdedi, Cic. Quint. 10, 36: esse certam rerum forensibus cancellis circumscriptam scientiam, id. de Or. 1, 12, 52: severitatis, Cod. Th. 1, 12, 8.—
- II Meton., the space enclosed by boundaries, Auct. B. Afr. 15 fin.
柵攔。 Extra cancellos egredi 離題目。言不干此事。無謂之談。Cancellis circumscribere vel Cancellos circumdare 限地。 限日。
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- cancer (late), a lattice, a lattice, enclosure, grating, grate, balustrade, bars, railings, bar in a court of justice: fori, the barrier in public spectacles.—Fig., boundaries, limits: extra hos cancellos egredi: forenses.
CANCELLI(κιγκλίδες, δρύφακτοι), a screen or lattice of open work, placed before a window, a doorway, the tribunal of a judge, or any other place. At Athens, in the senate-house (βουλευτήριον) and law-courts, δρύφακτοι were the bar or fixed partition, κιγκλίδες the gates opening into it (αἱ μὲν οὖν τῶν δικαστηρίων θύραι κιγκλίδες ἐκαλοῦντο, ἃς Ῥωμαῖοι καγκελλωτὰς λέγουσιν, Poll. 8.124). Balconies projecting from the fronts of houses were also called δρύφακτοι, Lat. maeniana (Heracl. Pont. fr. 10, with Müller's note, 2.209; τὰ τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ἐξέχοντα ξύλα, Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 672, Vesp. 385; this sense is not noticed in L. and S., ed. 7). The material was originally wood, as the name δρύφακτος shows (L. and S. s. v.); and such were also the cancelli put up at Rome for temporary purposes, as when funeral games were given in the Forum (cancelli fori, Cic. pro Sest. 58.124; cf. Ov. Am. 3.2, 64). But they might also be in metal, as in the cancelli before the Temple of Vesta, rebuilt by Severus, conjecturally restored by Comm. Lanciani from existing remains, and figured here from Middleton (p. 184); or in marble, as those on the Rostra from a relief on the Arch of Constantine, figured under ROSTRAIn the Basilica Julia, low marble screens or cancelli shut in the otherwise open arches on the ground-floor; a great number of fragments of these screens are scattered about the Forum (ib. p. 172). For the cancelli of law-courts see further Cic. in Verr. 3.5. 9, § 135, with Long's note; and compare Varr. R. R. 3.5; Dig. 30, 41, s. 10; 33, 7, s. 10.
Hence was derived the word Cancellarius, which originally signified a porter, who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor's palace. The Emperor Carinus gave great dissatisfaction by promoting one of his Cancellarii to be Praefectus urbi (Vopisc. Carin. 16). The cancellarius also signified a legal scribe or secretary, who sat within the cancelli or lattice-work, by which the crowd was kept off from the tribunals of the judges (Cassiod. Var. 11.6). The chief scribe or secretary was called Cancellarius κατ' ἐξοχήν, and was eventually invested with judicial power at Constantinople; but an account of his duties and the history of this office do not fall within the scope of the present work. From this word has come the modern Chancellor.
[W.S] [W.W](κιγκλίδες, δρύφακτοι). A screen or lattice of open work, placed before a window, a doorway, the tribunal of a judge, or any other place. At Athens, in the Senate-house and lawcourts δρύφακτοι were the inner partition, and κιγκλίδες the gates opening into it. Balconies projecting from the fronts of houses were also δρύφακτοι (maeniana). The material was originally wood, as the name δρύφακτος shows (L. and S. s. v.); and such were also the cancelli put up at Rome for temporary purposes, as when funeral games were given in the Forum (cancelli fori, pro Sest. 58. 124; cf. Ov. Am. iii. 2, 64). But they might also be in metal, as in the cancelli before the Temple of Vesta, rebuilt by Severus, conjecturally restored by Lanciani from existing remains, or in marble. In the Basilica Iulia, low marble screens or cancelli shut in the otherwise open arches on the ground floor; and a great number of fragments of these screens are now scattered about the Forum.
Hence was derived the word cancellarius, which originally signified a porter who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor's palace. The cancellarius also signified a legal scribe or secretary who sat within the cancelli, or latticework, by which the crowd was kept off from the tribunals of the judges (Cassiod. Var. xi. 6). The chief scribe or secretary was called cancellarius κατ ἐξοχήν, and was eventually invested with judicial power at Constantinople. From this word has come the modern “chancellor.”