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cămĕra (in MSS. and editt. also că-măra ; cf. Charis. p 43 P.), ae, f., = καμάρα [cf. κάμπτω = to bend, curve; Ital. camera; Germ. Kammer; Fr. chambre;
I.“Engl. chamber],” a vault, an arched roof, an arch, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 3; 3, 8, 1; Lucr. Fragm. ap. Charis. l. l.; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 1; Sall. C. 55, 4; Prop. 3 (4), 2, 10; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 2; 3, 7, 3; Col. 4, 17, 8; 11, 3, 60: “camera vitrea,” covered with glass, Plin. 36, 25, 64, § 189.—In ships, Suet. Ner. 34; cf. “upon the manner of building them,” Vitr. 7, 3: camerae caelum, the interior of a vault or arch, id. ib.—
II. Transf., a flat ship with an arched covering, used by those dwelling on the Black Sea, Tac. H. 3, 47; Gell. 10, 25, 5.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.1.1
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 7.3
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.47
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 55
    • Suetonius, Nero, 34
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.25.5
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 4.17.8
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