Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Caryatides

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. 

CARYAT'IDES (Καρυάτιδες). Female figures employed instead of columns by the ancient architects to support an entablature, as seen in the annexed engraving (Caryatides/1.1), which represents the portico attached to the temple of Pandrosos at Athens. Vitruv. i. 1. 5.

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