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''Opus mixtum'' (Latin: "mixed work"), or ''opus vagecum'' and ''opus compositum'', was an Roman architecture">ancient Roman
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...
construction technique. It can consist in a mix of ''opus reticulatum'' and at the angles and the sides of ''opus latericium''.
It can also consist of ''opus vittatum'' and ''opus testaceum''.
''Opus mixtum'' was used in particular during the age of Emperor
