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sacellum
[ suh-kel-uhm, -sel- ]
noun
, plural sa·cel·la [s, uh, -, kel, -, uh, -, sel, -, uh].
- a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- (in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.
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This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.
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In the early days of Rome many gentes had each their own sacellum for the performance of their religious rites.
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On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.
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These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.
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The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
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