Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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In this kitchen, as well as in many others at smaller than the triclinium. Diaeta is also the
Pompeii, there are paintings of the Lares or do- name given by Plinly (Ep. vi. 5) to rooms containmestic gods, under whose care the provisions and ing three or four bed-chambers (cubiceula). Pleaall the cooking utensils were placed. sure-houses or summer-houses are also called di9. COENACJCLA properly signified rooms to dine aetae. (Dig. 30. tit. 1. s. 43; 7. tit. 1. s. 13.
in; but after it became the fashion to dine in the ~ 8.)
upper part of the house, the whole of the rooms 11. SOLARIA, properly places for basking in
above the ground-floor were called coenalcza (Varr. the sun, were terraces on the tops of houses.
de Ling. Lat. v. 162, Miiller), and hence Festus (Plaut. Mlil. ii. 3. 69, ii. 4. 25; Suet. Nert. 16.)
says, " Coenacula dicuntur, ad quae scalis ascendi- In the time of Seneca the Romans formed artificial
tur." (Compare Dig. 9. tit. 3. s. 1.) As the rooms gardens on the tops of their houses, which conon the ground-floor were of different heights and tained even fruit-trees and fish-ponds. (Sen. Ep.
sometimes reached to the roof, all the rooms on 122, Contr. Exc. v. 5; Suet. Claudl. 10.)
the upper story could not be united with one an- The two woodcuts annexed represent two atria
other, and consequently different sets of stairs of houses at Pompeii. The first is the atrium of
would be needed to connect them with the lower what is usually called the house of the Quaestor.
part of the house, as we find to be the case in The view is taken near the entrance-hall facing the
houses at Pompeii. Sometimes the stairs had no tablinum, through which the columns of the periconnection with the lower part of the house, but style and the garden are seen. This atrium, which
ascended at once from the street. (Liv. xxxix. 14.) is a specimen of what Vitruvius calls the Corin10. DIAETA was an apartment used for dining thian, is surrounded by various rooms, and is
in, and for the other purposes of life. (Plin. Ep. ii. beautifully painted with arabesque designs upon
7; Suet. Claud. 10.) It appears to have been red and yellow grounds.
The next woodcut represents the atrium of The preceding account of the different rooms,
ivhat is usually called the house of Ceres. In the and especially of the arrangement of the atrium,
centre is the impluvium, and the passage at the tablinum, peristyle, &c., is best illustrated by the
further end is the ostiam or entrance-hall. As housas which have been disinterred at Pompeii.
there are no pillars around the impluvium, this The ground-plan of two is accordingly subjoined.
atrium must belong to the kind called by Vituvxius The first is the plan of a house, usually called the
the Tuscan. house of the tragic poet.
Like most of the other houses at Pompeii, it
had no vestibulum according to the meaning which
~; I/-I [ lwe have attached to the word. 1. The ostium or
tg~! ByS i~entrance hall, which is six feet wide and nearly
1< l~1 \ thirty long. Near the street door there is a figure
li! ~ 1m C i ~of a large fierce dog worked in mosaic on the,- / l r = Ut_ _ - w_ pavement, and beneath it is written Cave Caneoe.
t~~~1fuilk fFi _ t l 4 E The two large rooms on each side of the vestibule
appear from the large openings in front of them to
MTn~~ I! X l i | Ihave been shops; they communicate with the en=i 2 |s 7W trance hall, and were therefore probably occupied
by the master of the house. 2. The atrium, which!breadth; its imipluviumn is near the centre of the
-Th a\st = a dcutroom, and its floor is paved with white tesseraeo
I —A —--— t I-spotted with black. 3i. Chambers for the use of,