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The house had grown a story higher; and the tiled roof, now surmounted by a bronze acroterium, projected an intact outline against the light blue of the sky, where a few stars were growing pale.

Pertaining to an acroterium; as, ornaments.

The pediment and acroterium were adorned with statues—scarcely, however, to be distinguished at that distance.

An ever present feature, also, is the palmette acroterium, treated in conventional ceramic style.

Fortunately a notable example has been preserved in the acroterium of the gable of the Heraion at Olympia, 51 a great disk of clay over seven feet in diameter.