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

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A window. (See Domus, pp. 540, 551.)

A loophole in a tower from which arrows

Windows in the House of the Tragic Poet. (Pompeii.)

and other missiles were discharged (B. C. ii. 9).

A hole pierced in the lobe of the ear for holding ornaments (Juv.i. 104). See Inauris.

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

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