Note 315 — Chapter I · PRIVATE DWELLINGS.
Reading edition
Eustath. ad Odyss. χ. p. 776.—These female apartments were sometimes hired out and inhabited by men.—Antiph. Nec. Venef. § 3.—Mr. Fosbroke’s account is curious:—“The thalamos was an apartment where the mothers of families worked in embroidery, in tapestry, and other works, with their wives, or their friends.”—Encyclop. of Ant. i. 50.