A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ristyle, &c, is best illustrated by thehouses which have been disinterred at ground-plan of two is accordingly first is the plan of a house, usually called thehouse of the tragic poet. Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, ithad no vestibulum according to the meaning whichwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium orentrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearlythirty long. Near the street door there is a figureof a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on thepavement, and beneath it is written Cave two larg
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ristyle, &c, is best illustrated by thehouses which have been disinterred at ground-plan of two is accordingly first is the plan of a house, usually called thehouse of the tragic poet. Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, ithad no vestibulum according to the meaning whichwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium orentrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearlythirty long. Near the street door there is a figureof a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on thepavement, and beneath it is written Cave two large rooms on each side of the vestibuleappear from the large openings in front of them tohave been shops ; they communicate with the en-trance hall, and were therefore probably occupiedby the master of the house. 2. The atrium, whichis about twenty-eight feet in length and twenty inbreadth; its impluvium is near the centre of theroom, and its floor is paved with white tesserae,spotted with black. 3. Chambers for the use of 430 DOM US. the family, or intended for the reception of guests,who were entitled to claim hospitality. Whena house did not possess an hospitium, or roomsexpressly for the reception of guests, they ap-pear to have been lodged in rooms attached tothe atrium. [Hospitium.] 4. A small room witha stair-case leading up to the upper rooms. 6. The tablinum. 7. The fauces. 8. Peri-style, with Doric columns and garden in the large room on the right of the peristyle is thetriclinium ; beside it is the kitchen ; and thesmaller apartments are cubicula and other roomsfor the use of the family. The next woodcut contains the ground-plan ofan insula^ which was properly a house not joinedto the neighbouring houses by a common wall.(Festus, s. v.) An insula, however, generallycontained several separate houses, or at leastseparate apartments or shops, which were let todifferent families ; and hence the term domusunder the emperors appears to be applied t
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