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the entrance under the archway over against us

  • 1 fornix

    fornix, ĭcis, m., an arch or vault (cf.: camera, testudo, tholus, lacunar).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Democritus invenisse dicitur fornicem, ut lapidum curvatura paulatim inclinatorum medio saxo alligaretur,

    Sen. Ep. 90 med.:

    si quis in pariete communi demoliendo damni infecti promiserit, non debebit praestare, quod fornix vitii fecerit,

    Cic. Top. 4, 22; Auct. Her. 3, 16, 29:

    aqua fornicibus structis perducta (Romam),

    Plin. 31, 3, 24, § 41:

    conspicio adverso fornice portas,

    the entrance under the archway over against us, Verg. A. 6, 631:

    fornices in muro erant apti ad excurrendum,

    vaulted openings from which to make sallies, Liv. 36, 23, 3; a covered way, id. 44, 11, 5.— Poet., of the arches of heaven: caeli ingentes fornices, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 19 Müll. (Trag. v. 423 ed. Vahl.), a figure found fault with by Cicero, Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162.—
    B.
    In partic.: Fornix Făbĭus, a triumphal arch built by Q. Fabius Allobrogicus in the Sacra Via, near the Regia. Cic. Planc. 7, 17; Quint. 6, 3, 67;

    also called Fornix Fabianus,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 19 (for which:

    Arcus Fabianus,

    Sen. Const. Sap. 1); and:

    Fornix Fabii,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267; cf. Becker's Antiq. 1, p. 239 sq.—
    II.
    Transf., a brothel, bagnio, stew, situated in underground vaults, Hor. S. 1, 2, 30 sq.; id. Ep. 1, 14, 21; Juv. 3, 156; 11, 171.—Hence, transf., of one who gave himself up to prostitution:

    (Caesarem) Curio stabulum Nicomedis et Bithynicum fornicem dicit,

    Suet. Caes. 49.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fornix

  • 2 Fornix Fabius

    fornix, ĭcis, m., an arch or vault (cf.: camera, testudo, tholus, lacunar).
    I.
    Lit.:

    Democritus invenisse dicitur fornicem, ut lapidum curvatura paulatim inclinatorum medio saxo alligaretur,

    Sen. Ep. 90 med.:

    si quis in pariete communi demoliendo damni infecti promiserit, non debebit praestare, quod fornix vitii fecerit,

    Cic. Top. 4, 22; Auct. Her. 3, 16, 29:

    aqua fornicibus structis perducta (Romam),

    Plin. 31, 3, 24, § 41:

    conspicio adverso fornice portas,

    the entrance under the archway over against us, Verg. A. 6, 631:

    fornices in muro erant apti ad excurrendum,

    vaulted openings from which to make sallies, Liv. 36, 23, 3; a covered way, id. 44, 11, 5.— Poet., of the arches of heaven: caeli ingentes fornices, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 19 Müll. (Trag. v. 423 ed. Vahl.), a figure found fault with by Cicero, Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 162.—
    B.
    In partic.: Fornix Făbĭus, a triumphal arch built by Q. Fabius Allobrogicus in the Sacra Via, near the Regia. Cic. Planc. 7, 17; Quint. 6, 3, 67;

    also called Fornix Fabianus,

    Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 19 (for which:

    Arcus Fabianus,

    Sen. Const. Sap. 1); and:

    Fornix Fabii,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 267; cf. Becker's Antiq. 1, p. 239 sq.—
    II.
    Transf., a brothel, bagnio, stew, situated in underground vaults, Hor. S. 1, 2, 30 sq.; id. Ep. 1, 14, 21; Juv. 3, 156; 11, 171.—Hence, transf., of one who gave himself up to prostitution:

    (Caesarem) Curio stabulum Nicomedis et Bithynicum fornicem dicit,

    Suet. Caes. 49.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Fornix Fabius

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