Tuesday, October 13, 2015

CRYPTA VENERIS

Speranza

cryptaaef., = κρύπτη,
I 

a concealed, subterrunean passage
a vault
cavern
cave
grotto
pit
Varr. ap. Non. p. 169, 11
Suet. Calig. 58Juv. 5, 106 al.
—As a place of depositVitruvio. 6, 8.—

II Esp.: crypta Neapolitana, 

a dark grotto in the neighborhood of Naples, through which was a shorter passage to Puteoli, now Grotta di Napoli

Sen. Ep. 57, 1.

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