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

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Canalicŭlus

Properly a small channel or canal, and also used in the following special senses: to denote

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the channel or barrel of a catapult (Vitruv. x. 15);

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a splint (Cels. viii. 2);

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the grooves carved on the face of a triglyph between the three uprights (femina, μηροί), while those at each end where the outside femina sank to the level of the metope were called semicanaliculi. See Canalis; Columna.

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

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