Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Supercilium

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. 

SUPERCIL'IUM. The lintel of a doorcase (Vitruv. iv. 6. 2. and 4.), which stretches from the top of one doorpost (postis) to the other, and over the doorway, like an eyebrow over the eye. The example (Supercilium/1.1) represents a stone doorway to one of the houses at Pompeii.

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