[313]. Similar courts in the houses of Magna Græcia are described as having had in the middle a square tank where the rain-water was collected, and ran into a reservoir beneath.—Sir W. Hamilt. Acc. of Discov. at Pomp. p. 13.
[314]. Odyss. α. 425. seq.
[315]. Eustath. ad Odyss. χ. p. 776.—These female apartments were sometimes hired out and inhabited by men.—Antiph. Nec. Venef. § 3.—Mr. Fosbroke’s account is curious:—“The thalamos was an apartment where the mothers of families worked in embroidery, in tapestry, and other works, with their wives, or their friends.”—Encyclop. of Ant. i. 50.
[316]. Sometimes, at least, roofed with cypress-wood, as we learn from Mnesimachos, in his Horsebreeder: βαίν’ ἐκ θαλάμων κυπαρισσορόφων ἔξω, Μάνη.—Athen. ix. 67.
[317]. We find ladies, however, sometimes dining with their children in the Aulè.—Demosth. in Ev. et Mnes. § 16.
[318]. Hesych, v. γυναίκ. p. 866. Cyrill. Lex. Ms. Bren. Bret. ad Hesych. l. c.
[319]. Eidyll. ii. 136. Phocyl. v. 198.
[320]. Athen. ii. 50. Cf. Sch. Aristoph. Vesp. 68.
[321]. Odyss. ο. 516.
[322]. Il. β. 514. π. 184.