ATLANTIDES, among the Poets See VERGILIUS.
ATLAS, in Architecture is a Name given to those Figures, or Half-Figures of Men, so much used instead of Columns, or Pilasters; to support any Member of Architecture, as a Balcony, or the like. See COLUMN, etc.
These are otherwise called Telamones. See TELAMON.
ATLANTIDES
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