ADYTUM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Architecture, the secret dark chamber in a temple, to which none but the priests had acce . It was from this part that the oracles were delivered. Seneca, in his tragedy of Thyestes, says, " Hinc or anti bus Responsa dantur cert a, dum ingenti so no Laxantur Adyto fat a." Among the Egj'ptians, the Secos was the same thing of which Strabo has given a description. The only well preserved adytum of the ancients is in the little temple at Pompeii. It is raised some steps above the level of the temple itself, and is without light, j^' [s. 29]