Definition of "oecus" [oecus]

• An apartment, room, or hall in an ancient Roman dwelling house. (noun)

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• "After these words he passed to the other end of the house, to the hall called oecus, where Pomponia Græcina, Lygia, and little Aulus were waiting for him in fear and alarm."
• "After the curtain was pushed aside which divided the atrium from the tablinum, the house was open from end to end, so that through the tablinum and the following peristyle and the hall lying beyond it which was called the oecus, the glance extended to the garden, which seemed from a distance like a bright image set in a dark frame."
• "See the troughs below the arcades and the vaulted sitting room (oecus) XXXVIII in the background."