Crossword clues for dromos
Wiktionary
n. 1 An avenue or entranceway to a building. 2 A passage to a tomb. 3 An Ancient Greek racecourse.
Wikipedia
Dromos may refer to:
- Cursus publicus, the public road system of the Roman and Byzantine empires
- Dromos, in architecture, an entrance passage or avenue leading to a building
- Dromoi, modes (types of scales) used in Greek music
Usage examples of "dromos".
The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day.
It extended from Karnak to Luxor and, turning in a vast loop at the Nile front, countermarched over the dromos and ended at the tremendous white-walled temple of Amen.
The side Kenkenes approached sloped sharply from the dromos toward the river, and the rearmost spectators had small opportunity to behold the pageant.
Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts.