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

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Pergŭla

(from pergo, hence something projecting). A name given to

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a veranda, roofed over, but open at the sides, used for a teacher's lecture-room, a painter's studio, or a shop (Juv.xi. 137; Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 84; Auson, Epist. iv. 6);

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a covered balcony projecting from the upper part of a house (Suet. Aug. 94); and

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the cella of a prostitute (Plaut. Pseud. i. 2, 78).

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

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