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STILLICIDIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 921 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STILLICIDIUM , a dripping of See also:

water from the See also:eaves (stilla, drop, cadere, to fall), the See also:term in See also:architecture given by See also:Vitruvius ((v. 7) to the dripping eaves of the roof of the See also:Etruscan See also:temple. Similar dripping eaves existed in most of the See also:Greek Doric temples in contradistinction to the Ionic temples, where the water of the roof was collected in the cymatium or See also:gutter and thrown out through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the cymatium.

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