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Companion to Roman history (1912)
Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 188
peii in the pre-Romanperiod. Even those houses which possess second-floor rooms rarelyhave a complete second story. Upper rooms were called cenacula,literally dining-rooms ; and Varro, in explaining the name, tellsus that it became customary to dine upstairs. This statementlacks confirmation ; but… … o t> © -u <4H o OCO 13 o tti HH © ■+3 «*h O © 1 ■+3 CO © Ph 472 M 162 ARCHITECTURE chap, ii We have now described the native Italian dwelling, whose partsare all designated by Latin words, vestibulum, fauces, atrium, ala,tdblinum, cenaculum. But in later historical times we find a seriesof…Art · Architecture
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