Definitionn. clock that measures time by the escape of water
Last update: September 10, 2015
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The various approaches to the citadel on the northern side - the rock-cut flight of steps north-east of the Erechtheum, the stairs leading to the well Clepsydra, and the intermediate passage supposed to have furnished access to the Persians - are all to be attributed to the primitive epoch. [Please select]
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That the Pelasgicum actually did extend from the Aesculapieum to the Clepsydra we know from Lucian. [Please select]
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On this explanation, the purpose of the wheel would be merely to provide the manual adjustment necessary to set the angel from time to time, compensating for irremediable inaccuracies of the clepsydra. [Please select]
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Popilius Lænas, divided the hours of night and day, by means of a clepsydra or water-clock, which he consecrated under a covered building. [Please select]
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