Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Femur

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. 

FEMUR (μηρός). In architecture, the long flat projecting face between each channel (canaliculus) of a triglyph (Vitruv. iv. 3. 5.); three of which are seen in the annexed engraving (Femur/1.1), from the frieze of a Doric temple formerly existing at Rome.

References

edit