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INNS AND WINESHOPS
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is connected with a small room (</) and also with the adjoining
house, which may have been the residence of the proprietor,
or may have been used for lodgings.
The long room with an entrance from the side street (b, now
walled up) was in-
tended for the use of
those who preferred to
eat and drink at their
leisure. The walls are
decorated with a series
of paintings presenting
realistic scenes from
the life of such places.
We see the guests eat-
ing, drinking, and play-
ing with dice. Some
are standing, others sit-
ting on stools ; it is the
Fig. 224. — Scene in a wineshop. Wall painting.
kind of public house that Martial calls a ‘ stool-ridden cookshop,’
in which couches were not provided, but only seats without
backs.
In one of the scenes (Fig. 224) four men are drinking, about
a round table, while a boy waits on them ; two of the figures
Fig. 225. — Delivery of wine. Wall' painting.
have pointed hoods like those
seen to-day in Sicily and some
parts of Italy. Strings of
sausage, hams, and other eat-
ables hang from a pole sus-
pended under the ceiling.
Some of the figures in the
pictures are accompanied by
inscriptions. Thus by the
side of a guest for whom a
waiter is pouring out a glass
of wine is written : Da fri-
dam pusilium, ‘Add cold water — just a little.’ In a similar
connection we read, Adds calicem Setinum, ‘ Another cup of
Setian ! ’ The Setian wine came from a town in Latium at the
395
is connected with a small room (</) and also with the adjoining
house, which may have been the residence of the proprietor,
or may have been used for lodgings.
The long room with an entrance from the side street (b, now
walled up) was in-
tended for the use of
those who preferred to
eat and drink at their
leisure. The walls are
decorated with a series
of paintings presenting
realistic scenes from
the life of such places.
We see the guests eat-
ing, drinking, and play-
ing with dice. Some
are standing, others sit-
ting on stools ; it is the
Fig. 224. — Scene in a wineshop. Wall painting.
kind of public house that Martial calls a ‘ stool-ridden cookshop,’
in which couches were not provided, but only seats without
backs.
In one of the scenes (Fig. 224) four men are drinking, about
a round table, while a boy waits on them ; two of the figures
Fig. 225. — Delivery of wine. Wall' painting.
have pointed hoods like those
seen to-day in Sicily and some
parts of Italy. Strings of
sausage, hams, and other eat-
ables hang from a pole sus-
pended under the ceiling.
Some of the figures in the
pictures are accompanied by
inscriptions. Thus by the
side of a guest for whom a
waiter is pouring out a glass
of wine is written : Da fri-
dam pusilium, ‘Add cold water — just a little.’ In a similar
connection we read, Adds calicem Setinum, ‘ Another cup of
Setian ! ’ The Setian wine came from a town in Latium at the