Ceramicus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Cĕrămīcus, i, m., = Κεραμεικός (the pot-maker),

the name of two places , one within and the other without Athens; in the latter were the monuments and statues of heroes that had fallen in war, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 39; id. Leg. 2, 26, 64; Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 1, 10, 1; Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 20; 37, 12, 45, § 155 (cf. Pausan. 1, 29, 2 Siebel. and Meurs. in Thes. Gron. iv. p. 1006 sq.).

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