A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 430 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 a
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 430 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 to thehouse where one family lived, whether i
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