A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Diaeta is also thename given by Plimr {Ep. vi. 5) to rooms contain-ing three or four bed-chambers (cubicula). Plea-sure-houses or summer-houses are also called di-aetae. (Dig. 30. tit. 1. s. 43 ; 7. tit. 1. s. 13.§8.) 11. Solaria, properly places for basking inthe sun, were terraces on the tops of houses.(Plaut. Mil. ii. 3. 69, ii. 4. 25 ; Suet. Ner. 16.)In the time of Seneca the Romans formed artificialgardens on the tops of their houses, which con-tained even fruit-trees and fish-ponds. (Sen. , Contr. Exc. v. 5 ; Suet. Claud. 10.) The two
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . Diaeta is also thename given by Plimr {Ep. vi. 5) to rooms contain-ing three or four bed-chambers (cubicula). Plea-sure-houses or summer-houses are also called di-aetae. (Dig. 30. tit. 1. s. 43 ; 7. tit. 1. s. 13.§8.) 11. Solaria, properly places for basking inthe sun, were terraces on the tops of houses.(Plaut. Mil. ii. 3. 69, ii. 4. 25 ; Suet. Ner. 16.)In the time of Seneca the Romans formed artificialgardens on the tops of their houses, which con-tained even fruit-trees and fish-ponds. (Sen. , Contr. Exc. v. 5 ; Suet. Claud. 10.) The two woodcuts annexed represent two atriaof houses at Pompeii. The first is the atrium ofwhat is usually called the house of the view is taken near the entrance-hall facing thetablinum, through which the columns of the peri-style and the garden are seen. This atrium, whichis a specimen of what Vitruvius calls the Corin-thian, is surrounded by various rooms, and isbeautifully painted with arabesque designs uponred and yellow The next woodcut represents the atrium ofwhat is usually called the house of Ceres. In thecentre is the impluvium, and the passage at thefurther end is the ostium or entrance-hall. Asthere are no pillars around the impluvium, thisatrium must belong to the kind called by Vitruviusthe Tuscan.
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