Otherwise, Vitruvius mentions the cubiculum once, noting that "private rooms [cubicula] and libraries should look to the east, for their purpose demands the morning light." ❋ Unknown (2008)
The rest of the apartment was divided longitudinally into little cubicula, rooms of the space of the one dirty mat with which each was furnished. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Bosio enumerates six _cubicula_ or family burial-chapels in the cemetery or catacomb of Priscilla, and thirteen arched tombs with paintings. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Nola, Fondi, etc. The basilica at Nola counted five naves and had on each side four additions or chapels (cubicula), and an apsis arranged in a clover shape. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
At first crypts were sometimes as deepsunk as the cubicula of the catacombs themselves, e.g. in Saint-Germain, at Auxerre, and in the Chartres cathedral. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
+ The altar detached from the wall in the cubicula, or sepulchral chapels surrounded by loculi and arcosolia, used as places of worship in the catacombs or in the churches erected above ground after the time of Constantine. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Along the passages burial chambers (cubicula) open to the right and left, also hewn out of the tufa rock. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Of the work of the stone-masons and sculptors in the cubicula of the martyrs, and in the ornamentation of the altars, choir-screens, pulpits, Easter candlesticks, etc., of the great basilicas only scanty remains have been preserved. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Among some rude charcoal sketches in one of its cubicula is one representing the demolition of a pagan idol, an index of the end of the fourth century. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The corridors and cubicula of this portion of the cemetery of Priscilla offer numerous evidences of Apostolic antiquity, and there is sufficient reason to believe ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Earthen lamps were set in the fresh plaster sealing the slab which closed the grave, or were placed on projecting mouldings in the cubicula, and these lamps in the early period were very simple. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
No better altar than those graves could be chosen for the celebration of divine service; but they were sunk deep in the ground, and the cubicula of the catacombs were hardly capable of containing the officiating clergy, much less the multitudes of the faithful. ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)
_cubicula_ on the sides; a few of these are painted, and the vault of the corridor in front of them, also. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
From there grew, during the third century, the vast system of galleries and cubicula that then took and has since kept the name of Coemeterium Callisti; early in the third century it was known as The Cemetery (to koimeterion) par excellence, and owed its new name, not to the burial there of Pope Callistus (for he was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius), but to his zeal in developing and perfecting the original areoe, or private Roman sepulchral plots, that in his time had come to be the first landed property ever possessed by the Catholic Church. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
_triclinia_ the fragments of the last feast -- in its _cubicula_ the perfumes and the rouge of faded beauty -- and everywhere the bones and skeletons of those who once moved the springs of that minute yet gorgeous machine of luxury and of life! ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
Seneca) 'an grauius aestimandum sponte litigatoris praemium honestae operae adsequi quam corrumpere cubicula principum feminarum?'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
Some of the original paintings [Bosio gives, on eight plates, engravings of a number of vases and lamps found in this catacomb, several views of _cubicula_, and upwards of seventy paintings. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
