| Laodice flung her hands over her face and shrank in an agony of shame down upon the exedra. |
| The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra. |
| This nymphaeum and its exedra, placed on the longitudinal axis of the garden, is the real centre of the ensemble. |
| Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair. |
| Roman nymphaea became monumental pleasure houses, often in the shape of an exedra covered by a half dome. |
| Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra. |
