Citations:cymata

See also: Citations:Cymata

English citations of cymata

• 1745, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella’s Of Huſbandry, in twelve books (London: printed for A. Millar, oppoſite to Catharine-ſtreet in the Strand), book X: “Of the Culture of Gardens, in Verſe”, page 429, footnote 13 (to line 211)

  Of all theſe different ſorts the cymata, i. e. the ſprouts, as Pliny ſays, are, by all nicer palates, reckoned the ſweeteſt, and more tender and delicate than the braſſica itſelf.

• 1844, Wilhelm Adolf Becker [aut.] and Frederick Metcalfe [tr.], Gallus; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus (London: John W. Parker, West Strand), scene V: “The Villa”, footnote 14, page 71

  Both the larger stalks, caules, cauliculus, and the young spring-shoots, cymata, cymæ, were eaten. Col. x. 127, seqq.

• 1909, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society XXXIV, page 17

  It has been suggested that cymae (or cymata, as Columella writes it) were vegetative buds developed as leafy shoots.

• 1937, Richard Krautheimer, Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV–IX Cent.) (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana), page 318

  These differ in that the ones on the main apse have a simple cyma, whereas those of the north apse have fasciae as well as cymata.

• 1957, Jens Andreas Bundgaard, Mnesicles: A Greek Architect at Work (Gyldendal), page 232

  […] and more marked curves in the abaci of the capitals, in cymata etc., which when measured prove to be fairly, sometimes very, exact hyperbolae are not necessarily mathematically constructed.

• 1969, M. Nieuwhof, Cole Crops: Botany, Cultivation, and Utilization (L. Hill), page 2

  Columella also mentioned a crop of which the stems (caules) were harvested in autumn, and the sprouts (cymata) in spring.

• 1975, Ralph F. Hoddinott, Bulgaria in Antiquity: An Archaeological Introduction (Ernest Benn Limited), page 43

  Fragments of fourth-century Mesambrian cymata, or curved architectural mouldings, bear the same stamp as is found on Olbian tiles and, on the basis of Mesambrian material, much of it unpublished, I. B. Brashinsky recognises close analogies between cymata and ornamental frontal tiles of both cities (Pl. 15).

• 1977, The Encyclopedia Americana (Americana Corporation; →ISBN, 9780717201082) XIII, page 417

  The rounded or wave moldings (cymata) were decorated according to their profiles with carved or painted leaf-and-dart or egg-and-dart patterns.

• 2003, Rabun Taylor, “Sculpture and Furniture [of the House of Diana]” in Cosa V: An Intertmittent Town, Excavations 1991–1997 (University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, ed. Elizabeth Fentress, page 201

  The rim is smoothly rounded in section, forming an ovolo molding on the upper edge surmounting two shallow cymata.