Muttering something not very comprehensible about his exertions in the morning, and his inability to drink any more, Paullus arose, delighted to effect his escape on terms so easy, and left the triclinium immediately in quest of his mistress.
Beyond this was a summer triclinium or dining room facing the north, and provided with the three-sided couch, from which it took its name, embracing a circular table.
That close to the gate, called the House of the Triclinium, derives its name from a large triclinium in the centre of the peristyle, which is spacious and handsome, and bounded by the city walls.
His description of the triclinium of Scaurus will give the reader the best notion of the style in which such an apartment was furnished and ornamented.
The space marked 36 contained the stair which gave access to it, a stove connected probably with the service of the triclinium and other conveniences.
Above was the inscription: Sittius restituit elephantum; and beneath the following: Hospitium hic locatur Triclinium cum tribus lectis Et comm.
On the same side of the atrium, beyond a passage leading to a kitchen with an oven, is an elegant triclinium fenestratum looking upon an adjacent garden.
Here is a triclinium with three beds and other conveniences.
His establishment is so appointed that for each triclinium he has a great number of tables of different sorts, and each table has its own service and its particular attendants.
The large apartment was a tricliniumfor the use of this portion of the house, where the place of the table, and of the beds which surrounded it on three sides, was marked by a mosaic pavement.
The triclinium positively sparkled with good humor, even Lucilia belied herself, for more than once she broke out into a merry laugh, the very reverse of dull.
In a few minutes the Claudia family were sitting in the triclinium to take a slight breakfast before starting.
It is possible that this may be the triclinium in which Statius dined at Domitian's table, and of the marble decorations and spacious size of which he speaks in the fourth book of his 'Silvae.
We are now entering at the back of the triclinium or dining hall, at the end of which is a semicircular apse, possibly intended for the emperor's table when he dined here.
It is sometimes incorrectly stated that triclinium means three couches, and that a dining-room had the name of triclinium because it contained three couches; which is absurd.
They enter the triclinium in the midst of the banquet; they crawl over the viands and spoil what they do not devour.
Then, lamp in hand, she spoiled the triclinium of rugs and cushions, and found there the chalice of wine that Morgan had sipped from.
The lean look of him, his little green eyes, his thin goat-like beard, reminded her much of the picture of some old Satyr she had seen in the frescoes on the walls of the triclinium at Winchester.
Casalius from the Lateran Triclinium will tell us, that there being thirteen, five lay down in the first bed, five in the last, and three in the middle bed; and that our Saviour possessed the upper place thereof.
That it was in use among the Greeks, the word Triclinium implieth, and the same is also declarable from many places in the Symposiacks of Plutarch.
The atrium was full of flowers and statues, the door was hung with garlands, the frescoes in the tablinum and triclinium were all new.
The unfortunate Emperor was carried out of the triclinium by his attendants.
All the women slaves were shut up in the triclinium together, and the door was carefully guarded.
When the guests entered the vast triclinium they were almost dazzled with the display of splendour which greeted them.
The moment he could escape from the triclinium Titus came, and found the slave-boy Epictetus sitting at the foot of the couch, with his head covered.
Caligula himself led the way to the tricliniumand Dea Flavia followed him.
Silently, the lawyer and his son and daughter ate their evening meal, reclining on the tricliniumin the long room tinted in Pompeian red, a frieze three feet in width ran around the walls.
As the lawyer and his children reclined at the triclinium in the cool arcade opening on the garden, Martius narrated to Virgilia his conversation with Hermione that morning in his father's office.
As Actaeon appeared in the triclinium some slaves fled, fearing lest they should be punished for their curiosity.
According to the poets, the phoenix bestrews its nest with incense, bay, and cinnamon, but I swear by the gods that I would rather be in Sonnica's triclinium than in that nest!
This venereum contained a bedchamber, a triclinium and a lararium, or small marble niche in which the household god was enshrined.
A freedman in the reign of Claudius decorated his triclinium with thirty-two columns of onyx.
I say nothing of the slaves that were counted by thousands in the old palaces, and by hundreds in the triclinium and kitchen alone.
This was a place for banquets in honor of the dead, triclinium funebre; a tomb designed to serve the convenience of the living, like the niche of Cerrinius Restitutus and the benches of Veius and Mamia.
In the place of four of the columns an open-air triclinium was made, like that in the house of Sallust.
House withtriclinium of masonry and seat for the children.
In many gardens we find about the triclinium the remains of four or six columns.
In order to save the trouble of moving heavy furniture couches of masonry were not infrequently constructed in the garden, and have been preserved; such a triclinium is that in the garden of the tannery (p.
The appearance of such a triclinium may be inferred from that of thetriclinium funebre shown in Fig.
At one end of the garden was an open-air triclinium (k), which still remains.
This explanation is confirmed by the close connection of the bakery with the house; and the use of the open-air triclinium is entirely consistent with it (p.
In an open-air triclinium in the ninth Region (IX.
In the triclinium a table was laid for four persons.
Ursus stood calmly, but looked at Vinicius so strangely with his blue eyes that the blood stiffened in the veins of the young man; then the giant took his queen on his arm, and walked out of the triclinium with an even, quiet step.
Would that gigantic blue-eyed Lygian, who had the courage to enter the triclinium and carry her from the feast on his arm?
In this way they went from the triclinium to the adjoining chamber, and thence to the gallery leading to Acte's apartments.
But from the moment when he saw her more nearly in the triclinium he thought to himself that Aurora might look like her; and as a judge he understood that in her there was something uncommon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triclinium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
