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Vitruvius · 1543

INDEX OF GREEK WORDS, WHICH are read scattered throughout the books of Vitruvius. ONE DOT denotes the first part of the page: two denote the latter.
abaton [sanctuary/forbidden place] 59.
akrobatikon [high-standing/acrobatic] 228.
akrolithon [stone-tipped] 56.
amaxopodes [wagon-feet/axle-supports] 257.
amphyrysis [flowing around] 231.
analogia [proportion] 69.
andron [men's hall] 162.
antibasis [counter-stepping] 250.
antichontes [counter-holding] 132.
arktos [bear/north] 217.
harmonia [harmony] 123.
arsenikon [arsenic/yellow orpiment] 179.
[unknown term] 16.
atlantes [atlantes/male figures as columns] 162.
aurion [tomorrow/dawn] 29.
B.
banauson [manual/vulgar] 228.
D.
diaulos [double-course/court] 138.
diathesis [arrangement] 9.
diathyra [double-door] 162.
diatonos [spanning stones] 54.
diatonon [diatonic/stretched] 123.
dichoron [two-fold/two-brick] 39.
diezeugmenon [disjunct] 125.
dimoir [two-part] 72.
dipicheaiki [two-cubit] 12.
diplasion [double] 72.
doron [palm/gift] 39.
ekklesiasterion [assembly hall] 177.
ekphora [projection] 86.
helike [spiral/helix] 217.
embates [step/mounting] 105.
emplekton [interwoven/rubble core] 53.
entasis [tension/swelling of columns] 83.
epagon [bringing to/drawing] 233.
epibathra [boarding plank/stair] 257.
epidimoir [additional part] 72.
epipentamoir [five-part addition] 72.
epititheodes [superimposed] 90.
episit [provisioning] 72.
epixides [scraped surface] 254.
hermedone [herm-like/molded] 219.
eskhara [hearth/brazier] 253.
euthia [straightness] 237.
heureka [I have found it] 208.
euros [east wind] 29.
ephektos [restrained/held] 72.
Z.
zyga [yokes/beams] 63.
zygeia [beam-like] 63.
H.
ekhea [echoing vessels] 6.
Th.
dema [binding/bond]