oecus
oecus, i, m., = οἶκος,
- a room in a house; a hall, saloon (only in Vitr. and Plin.): oeci magni, in quibus matresfamiliarum cum lanificis habent sessiones, Vitr. 6, 10; Plin. 36, 25, 60, § 184; cf. Becker's Gallus, 2, p. 189 (2d ed.).
oecus, s. oecos.
œcus (-os), ī, m. (οἶκος), grande salle, salon : Vitr. Arch. 6, 10 ; Plin. 36, 184.
Oecus
(οἶκος). (1) A house. (See domus.)
(2) A special apartment in a house resembling the atrium, but having no compluvium, being wholly roofed over. It was frequently used as a dininghall, and was of four kinds: (a) the oecus tetrastylus with four columns; (b) oecus Corinthius with a vaulted roof, supported upon columns at a certain distance from the side-walls; (c) oecus Aegyptius, a more magnificent apartment than the last, having its roof supported by a double row of columns like a basilica (q. v.); (d) oecus Cyzicenus, on which see domus, p. 546.