BOOK I. VI. 1-4 



manor house should be divided in turn into winter 

 apartments and summer apartments, in such a 

 way that the winter bedrooms may face the sunrise 

 at the winter solstice,'' and the winter dining-room 

 face the sunset at the equinox. ** The summer bed- 

 rooms, on the other hand, should look toward the 

 midday sun at the time of the equinox,"^ but the 

 dining-rooms of that season should look toward the 

 rising sun of winter.<^ The baths should face the 

 setting sun of summer,^ that they may be lighted 

 from midday up to evening. The promenades should 

 be exposed to the midday smi at the equinox, so as to 

 receive both the maximum of sun in winter and the 

 minimmn in summer. But in the part devoted to 

 farm uses there will be placed a spacious and high 

 kitchen, that the rafters may be free from the 

 danger of fire, and that it may offer a convenient 

 stopping-place for the slave household at every 

 season of the year. It will be best that cubicles for 

 unfettered slaves be built to admit the midday sun 

 at the equinox ; for those who are in chains there 

 should be an underground prison, as wholesome as 

 possible, receiving light through a number of narrow 

 windows built so high from the ground that they 

 cannot be reached with the hand. 



For cattle there should be stables which will not 

 be troubled by either heat or cold ; for animals 

 broken to work, two sets of stalls — one for winter, 

 another for summer ; and for the other animals 

 which it is proper to keep within the farmstead 

 there should be places partly covei*ed, partly open 

 to the sky, and surrounded with high walls so that the 

 animals may rest in the one place in winter, in the 

 other in summer, without being attacked by wild 



