Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Q, Q, Quadra

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A square dining-table (Verg. Aen. vii. 115). See Mensa.

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The plinth placed under the base of a column (Vitruv. iii. 4.5).

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Each of the narrow flat bands on a column forming respectively the upper and lower division between the hollow scotia and the swelling torus above and below it (Vitruv. iii. 5.2). See Columna.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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