Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Peripteros

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. 

PERIP'TEROS (περίπτερος). A term employed by architects to designate a temple or other edifice which is surrounded on the outside by a colonnade consisting of a single row of columns all round. (Vitruv. iii. 2.) The temple (Peripteros/1.1) of Theseus at Athens affords an existing specimen of the style.

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