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Those found in Delos, though fewer in number, are of much greater importance, the house in the street of the theatre having twelve rooms exclusive of the entrance passage and the great central court, surrounded on all four sides by a peristyle; in this house the oecus measured 26 � 18 ft.

The garden could be converted, after the Greek fashion, and under a Greek name, into a 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.

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.

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

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