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‖ opisˈthodomos Gr. Antiq.
Also in anglicized form oˈpisthodome.
[Gr., f. ὀπισθο- behind + δόµος house, room, chamber.]
An apartment at the back of an ancient Greek temple, corresponding to the πρόδοµος, πρόναος, or vestibule in front.
[1697Potter Antiq. Greece (1715) I. viii. 31 On the Backside of Minerva's Temple, was the publick Treasury, call'd from its Situation Ὀπισθόδοµος.] 1706Phillips, Opisthodomos. 1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece 29 They deified him, and lodged him in the Opisthodomos or the back part of the Parthenon. 1846Worcester, Opisthodome, an apartment, or place, in the back part of a Grecian house. 1846Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 71 An apartment called the opisthodomos which contained the treasures of the temple. |