| 释义 |
hecatomped, a.|hɛkəˈtɒmpɪd|
[ad. Gr. ἑκατόµπεδ-ος of a hundred feet long, f. ἑκατόν hundred + πεδ- ablaut-grade of πούς, ποδ- foot.]
Measuring a hundred feet in length and breadth; a hundred feet square. So hecaˈtompedon [Gr. ἑκατόµπεδον], a temple of these dimensions, as the Parthenon at Athens; hence hecaˈtompedism (irreg. hecatompedonism), applied to the system of exact proportions in architecture.
1703Savage Let. Antients cxlvi. 343 I'll pass over..the Hecatomped Temples. 1773W. Melmoth Cato 239 (Jod.) The Athenians, after they had completed the building of the temple called the Hecatompedon, exempted from all future toil those beasts of burden, whose labours had assisted in carrying on that sacred edifice. a1854Cockburn Ess., Pagan or Chr. in Mem. (1860) 72 Admirers of Grecian Hecatompedonism and the mathematical exactness of a fixed series of Ratios in the proportions of a structure. Ibid. 193. |