A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . inferior. , wehave little information even for tlieRoman dwelling as to the sleepingplace of the numerous householdslaves ; anil we can only infer by com-parison with modern experience thatmany of them slept in any corridor orhall of the house during the colderweather, and out of doors, under theroofs of porticoes, and the like, duringthe summer time. Tiic dwelling houseof the Greeks is known to us chietlyby the apjiearance, in Roman dwell-ings of a later time, of features whichwe take as lieing Greek
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . inferior. , wehave little information even for tlieRoman dwelling as to the sleepingplace of the numerous householdslaves ; anil we can only infer by com-parison with modern experience thatmany of them slept in any corridor orhall of the house during the colderweather, and out of doors, under theroofs of porticoes, and the like, duringthe summer time. Tiic dwelling houseof the Greeks is known to us chietlyby the apjiearance, in Roman dwell-ings of a later time, of features whichwe take as lieing Greek in origin,either from tradition or by strong in-herent probabihty. The dispositionto build around the ojien court, whichstill exists in tlie Mediterranean lands,in other subtropical and in all tropicalcountries, was universal in Greece andin Italy. The Roman atrium, whetherat first roofeil solidly, or with an openlouver like the megaron of the earlypalaces, was, in historic times, usuallyopen in the middle, with a cisternlichiw to catch tlie drippings of water from the N ImFE-OF THE. i;J«iiW\\\W » ;???«* ? .V ««.i--\V.;. ? Fig. 4.—House at S. (Haute-VienneJ ;14th Century. 420 HOUSE partial roof. (See Atrium ; CaviJediiim ; Com-pluviuin ; Impluviuin.) As larger bouses werebuilt, otlier courts were added, and this in cityas well as in country, until much later , a second and larger atrium, often called hytiie generic name peristylium, with a large cisternin the middle which was made decorative, wassurrounded by the rooms of the family, while the HOUSE was usually accompanied by a portico along oneside at least. Tlie larger houses of Pompeii,although in the heart of a dose-built town, arenot different in character from villas in the coiui-tiy, except that the courts and especially thegardens are smaller (see jdan. House of Pansa).In all these houses the second story is of minorimportance, nor is its exact disposition nor itsuse thoroughly well know
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