_Of the Distribution of the Apartments among the Ancients._
[Sidenote: _Lib. 6. Chap. 10._]
[Sidenote: _Lib. 6. Chap. 3, 4._]
The _Romans_ and the _Greeks_ ordered and distributed differently their
_Apartments_; for the _Romans_ had their _Courts_ and _Entries_
magnificent: but the _Greeks_ had only a narrow Entrance, through which
they passed into a _Peristyle_; this _Entry_ had of one Side a Porter's
Lodge, on the other Side the Stables.
The _Apartments_ of these two Nations differed in this, the _Apartments_
of the Women were separate from the _Apartments_ of the Men among the
_Greeks_; insomuch that they Dined apart. They had likewise particular
_Rooms_ reserved for Strangers apart, where they only gave them Lodging,
and never treated them above one Day.