slab
slab
subs.
P. and V. στήλη, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. στήλη, ἡ.
SLAB
s. quadra (a square slab as used in the base of a pillar): crusta (e.g. a marble slab crusta marmoris. Freund says that lamina may also be applied to marble). To cover with marble slabs crustis marmoris operire aliquid: to cut into slabs in crustas secare (e.g. marble).
s. quadra (a square slab as used in the base of a pillar): crusta (e.g. a marble slab crusta marmoris. Freund says that lamina may also be applied to marble). To cover with marble slabs crustis marmoris operire aliquid: to cut into slabs in crustas secare (e.g. marble).
v. crustis alicujus rei operire (e.g. crustis marmoris): pavire (to pave; e.g. terram aream): pavimentum facere.
slab: no exact equiv.: it may be expr. by (i.) crusta (a thin slice of marble, etc., used to face a building): to cover the walls with s.s of marble, parietes crusta operire, Plin. 36, 6, 7: s.s of Numidian marble, c. Numidicae, Sen. Ep. 86, 6: cf. id. Ben. 4, 6, 2: (ii.) ăbăcus (the flat square stone on the top of a column), Vitr. 3, 5, 5 (3, 10): (iii.) less precisely by quadra (a square stone); tăbŭla (a votive s., tablet); tessĕra (a small s. used in pavements).
slab
Slab
- with inscription recording distance of Lacedaemon from Olympia: Paus. 6.16.8
- triangular slab inscribed with hymn by Pindar: Paus. 9.16.1
- Tablets