oecus

After the curtain was pushed aside which divided the atrium from the tablinum, the house was open from end to end, so that through the tablinum and the following peristyle and the hall lying beyond it which was called the oecus, the glance extended to the garden, which seemed from a distance like a bright image set in a dark frame.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

After these words he passed to the other end of the house, to the hall called oecus, where Pomponia Græcina, Lygia, and little Aulus were waiting for him in fear and alarm.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

According to the program, one of the most urgent interventions was reconstruction of the vault above room XXVIII in Domestic Area, probably a winter oecus (salon) located along the north side of private courtyard XXV.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - On Site Conservation Report 1 2003

See the troughs below the arcades and the vaulted sitting room (oecus) XXXVIII in the background.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2 2003

Once more she threw her arms around Pomponia's neck; then both went out to the oecus, and she took farewell of little Aulus, of the old Greek their teacher, of the dressing-maid who had been her nurse, and of all the slaves.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

In the doors leading from the corridor to the oecus, terrified faces of slaves began to show themselves a second time.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

Nothing by day or by night could be more exquisite than the little harbor, a perfect horseshoe in shape, and now, at our first sight of it, set round with electric lights, like diamonds in the scarf-pin of some sporty Titan, or perhaps of Hercules Mon-oecus himself, who is said to have founded Monaco.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

At the back of the peristylium was the oecus, or state apartment, where Caius received distinguished guests, and where, in the lifetime of Julia, entertainments were given to the ladies of the colony.

Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion 1867

A larger paved courtyard (Courtyard XIII) provided with an exedra (Room XI), probably a winter oecus (open sitting room) and a smaller court (Courtyard XXV) with a vaulted chamber (Room XXVIII) fulfilling the same function, were enclosed by arcaded galleries and separated from each other by a private nymphaeum (Fountain XIX) and a central north-south running arcaded gallery.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 2 2003

_peristylium_, i.e. an open court with a pretty colonnade round it, and if there were space enough, you might add at the rear of this again an _exedra_, or an _oecus_, i.e. open saloons convenient for many purposes.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884