STILLICIDIUM  , a dripping of See also:

• WATER

water from the See also:

• EAVES (not a plural form as is sometimes supposed, but singular; O. Eng. efes, in Mid. High Ger. obse, Gothic ubizwa, a porch; connected with " over ")

eaves (stilla, drop, cadere, to fall), the See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture given by See also:

• VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO)

Vitruvius ((v . 7) to the dripping eaves of the roof of the See also:

• ETRUSCAN

Etruscan See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple . Similar dripping eaves existed in most of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Doric temples in contradistinction to the Ionic temples, where the water of the roof was collected in the cymatium or See also:

• GUTTER (O. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta, drop)

gutter and thrown out through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the cymatium .