tablinum
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Origin of tablinum
1820–30; < Latin tab ( u ) līnum, equivalent to tabula ( see table) + -īnum, neuter of -īnus -ine 1
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He then began to talk on his favourite topic -- the religions of the world, while Beric drew Aemilia, who had been weeping since the scene between her parents, into the tablinum.
From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
In this house the tablinum and a peristyle beyond are on a higher level than the atrium; consequently the fauces, or passage leading to the latter, ascends.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
The fauces in the case of smaller atriums should be two thirds, and in the case of larger one half the width of the tablinum.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The tablinum was an appendage of the atrium, and usually entirely open to it.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
The theory suggested by modern writers with regard to the scholæ is very much the same as that concerning the tablinum of private houses.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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