peristylium

pĕristȳlĭum, ii, n., = περιστύλιον,

• a place surrounded with columns on the inside, a peristyle, Vitr. 3, 1; 5, 11; Plin. Ep. 10, 70, 3; 10, 71, 1; Suet. Aug. 82; cf. peristylum.

peristȳlium, iī, n. (περιστύλιον), ein rings mit einem Säulengange umgebener offener Raum; im röm. Hause das Peristylium, um das die Wohnungen der Familie lagen, Vitr. 3, 2, 8 u.a. Plin. ep. 10, 70 (75), 3 u. 10, 71 (76). – Gew. Form peristȳlum, ī, n. (περίστυλον), Varro r. r. 3, 5, 1. Cic. de domo 116. Suet. Aug. 82, 1. Auson. ordo urb. 42. p. 99 Schenkl. Vgl. Schneider Vitr. 3, 3, 9.

pĕristȳlĭum, (14) ĭī, n. , c. peristylum : Vitr. Arch. 3, 1 ; Plin. Min. Ep. 10, 70, 3 ; Suet. Aug. 83.

PERISTYLIUM

PERISTY´LIUMor PERISTY´LUM. The Greek adjective περίστυλος is applied either to a court surrounded by colonnades on the inside, or to a building surrounded by them on the outside, as a temple. It is then used alone, in all three genders, with a substantive understood, for a court with colonnades: hence the Latin peristylum, or more commonly the substantive form peristyliumn. It is especially used for the courts of a Greek dwellinghouse, and for that introduced into Roman houses in imitation of them. [DOMUSVol. 1. p. 671.]

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