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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xx. 86 The close walkes, which were called cryptoporticus were not of choice but of necessitie, when extremitie of weather would not let them walke abroad.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 5 An entry..such as one as we might well Think it the Crypto-porticus of Hell.

1746 Eng. Traveller III. 516 Before the Front of the School he built a stately Crypto-Porticus, or fair Walk, all the Length of the School.

1764 R. Adam Ruins Palace Diocletian at Spalatro 9 This Crypto Porticus, like our modern galleries, was probably adorned with statues, pictures, and bas reliefs.

1832 W. Gell Pompeiana II. 61 In one of the most obscure parts of the cryptoporticus.

1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours among Eng. Antiq. 67 Two courts..surrounded by a gallery, or cryptoporticus.

1923 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 27 384 The extensive remains of corridors, cryptoporticus and rooms were discovered behind the basilica of Maxentius.

1960 Classical Jrnl. 55 196 Persons passing through the cryptoporticus could look out through a thin sheet of water onto the Cortina Terrace.

1998 Daily Tel. 5 Mar. 12/1 A small group of experts carrying torches were taken down into the brick cryptoporticus—a kind of ancient Roman passageway lit by windows and used to connect two buildings—to examine the fresco.