ASAROTUM Definition & Meaning

asarotum

[ as-uh-roh-tuhm ]

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noun

plural asarota

(in ancient Roman architecture) a painted pavement.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of asarotum¹

Latinization of neuter singular of Greek ��á��ō�ٴǲ� literally, unswept (once in Pliny, designating a floor paved in mosaic resembling table scraps), equivalent to a- a- ⁶ + ��ō-, verbid stem of ��û�� to sweep clean + -tos verbal adjective suffix

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When I had read those inscriptions, I admired the beauty of the temple, and particularly the disposition of its pavement, with which no work that is now, or has been under the cope of heaven, can justly be compared; not that of the Temple of Fortune at Praeneste in Sylla's time, or the pavement of the Greeks, called asarotum, laid by Sosistratus at Pergamus.

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