Lactary COLUMN, at Rome, according to Festus, was a column erected in the herb-market, now the place Montanara, which had a cavity in its pedestal, wherein young children abandoned by their parents, out of poverty or inhumanity, were exposed, to be brought up at the public expence.
Legal COLUMN. Among the Lacedæmonians there were columns raised in public places, wherein were engraven the fundamental laws of the state.
Limitrophous or Boundary COLUMN, that which shows the limits of a kingdom or country conquered. Such was that which Pliny says Alexander the Great erected at the extremity of the Indies.