ETHECA. We meet with this word in Ezekiel xli. 15, 16. Ethecas ex utraque parte centum cubitorum. This word is formed from the Hebrew, Athikim, or Ethikim, which may signify a gallery, portico, or place apart. St. Jerom, who has used this term Etheca in the xlist chapter of Ezekiel, in the xliid chapter, 3, 5. renders it porch; and this is its true signification. Notwithstanding in his Comment he reads Eccheta, and says that this word signifies a balcony. Vide nov. Edit. Hieronym. p. 714.Ecthetas Romæ appellant solaria de cœnaculorum parietibus eminentiâ, sive Mæniana, ab eo qui primus invenit.
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