Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Caementum
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich.
CAEMEN'TUM. Rough quarry stones, which were used for building walls in the manner described, and illustrated under the preceding word; including the large irregular masses employed for the walls of a citadel or fortified town (Liv. xxi. 11. Vitruv. i. 5. 8. and last cut but one), as well as the smaller fragments or chippings (λατύπη, σκύρος), more generally adopted in domestic architecture. Cic. Mil. 27. Vitruv. ii. 7. 1. Id. vi. 6. 1. and last illustration.