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‖ hyposcenium Gr. Antiq.|hɪpəʊˈsiːnɪəm, haɪpəʊ-| [f. Gr. *ὑποσκήνιον (on analogy of προσκήνιον proscenium) = τὰ ὑποσκήνια the parts beneath the stage, f. σκήνη scene.] The low wall supporting the front of the stage in a Greek theatre.
[1676tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 300 At the foot of the Logeon upon the Orchestra was a row of Pillars incompassing a place called the Hyposcenion.] 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hyposcenium,..a partition under the pulpit or logeum of the Greek theatre, appointed for the music. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxii, The hyposcenium had been painted to represent rocks. |