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to the same side of the court, yet the cab<r$x may sometimes
signify a gallery above the ^^oy,og, for guests of conse-
quence are placed in the former,' while the latter is allotted
to Ulysses when under the disguise of a mendicant. It
cannot be presumed, notwithstanding the simplicity of
the times, that strangers of rank could be mixed with the
pigs, goats, and sheep, intended for the next day's feast,
and as there was no other method of lode-ino- guests and
animals under the same roof, there must have been an up-
per story. The custom of sleeping in a gallery over these
animals is not unusual in great houses at the present time.
One side of the great court seems to have been occu-
pied by the Thalamos, or sleeping apartments of the2 men,
while those of the women were on the opposite side, and
were shut out from the rest of the house by doors which
were watched by Euryclea, the nurse of Ulysses,3 so that
the women, though alarmed at the cries of the suitors, were
totally ignorant of the cause which occasioned them.
The fourth side was the hall,4 or banqueting-room, the
1 Iliad. 24. 644. * Od. 10. 340. 3 Od. 21. 387.
4 Perhaps distinguished by the name of Ao/w, as in Od. 22. 455.
sSSK.-..*
to the same side of the court, yet the cab<r$x may sometimes
signify a gallery above the ^^oy,og, for guests of conse-
quence are placed in the former,' while the latter is allotted
to Ulysses when under the disguise of a mendicant. It
cannot be presumed, notwithstanding the simplicity of
the times, that strangers of rank could be mixed with the
pigs, goats, and sheep, intended for the next day's feast,
and as there was no other method of lode-ino- guests and
animals under the same roof, there must have been an up-
per story. The custom of sleeping in a gallery over these
animals is not unusual in great houses at the present time.
One side of the great court seems to have been occu-
pied by the Thalamos, or sleeping apartments of the2 men,
while those of the women were on the opposite side, and
were shut out from the rest of the house by doors which
were watched by Euryclea, the nurse of Ulysses,3 so that
the women, though alarmed at the cries of the suitors, were
totally ignorant of the cause which occasioned them.
The fourth side was the hall,4 or banqueting-room, the
1 Iliad. 24. 644. * Od. 10. 340. 3 Od. 21. 387.
4 Perhaps distinguished by the name of Ao/w, as in Od. 22. 455.
sSSK.-..*