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changed in its position, as the cloisters, the plan of the 

 Roman Donms has been remarkably kept to in some 

 of the old galleried inns. A good illustration is afforded 

 by the New Inn at Gloucester, the arrangement of which 

 is so precisely like that of the "house of the tragic poet" 

 in Pompeii that the plan of the latter, as given in Smith's 

 Dictionary of Antiquities \Domus\ would serve for it. 

 [Plate VIII., figs. 2, 3]. 



This plan shows the same narrow passage from the 

 street as that leading to the courtyard of the New Inn, 

 with shops on either side, entered from this passage, 

 exactly as the " bar " in such inns was entered. 



Then both the Pompeian house and the New Inn have 

 two courtyards, as have many other hostelries of the 

 same type. This feature was universal in large Roman 

 mansions, and in the Greek houses from which the plan 

 was copied by the Romans. The reason for having two 

 courts was the same as that which led to the building of 

 galleries in the places of worship : i.e. the seclusion or partial 

 seclusion of the women ; for while the outer court gave 

 access to the men's apartments, and was the one in which 

 strangers were received, the inner court, with its little 

 garden, was surrounded by the apartments of the women. 

 A comparison of the plan of a Greek house, from 

 Bekkir, which is given in the article, Doviiis, in Smith's 

 Dictionary, already referred to, with that of the house of 

 the tragic poet, and with one of Pansa's house, at Pompeii, 

 makes this origin of Roman arrangement unmistakable. 

 [Plate VIII., figs. I, 2, 3]. 



While, however, the house of Pansa, and the Greek 

 house, both have the passage leading to the inner court 

 placed exactly opposite the street entrance — which is also 

 the arrangement in the great Roman Villa at Woodchester, 

 the house of the tragic poet has the entrance to the inner 



