cubicleum

Updated: May 7, 2025

It was nearing sundown when Virgilia, very tired from the hours passed in gently soothing her mother's querulous complaints, giving her cooling drinks and telling her old Grecian legends to amuse her, entered her own little cubicleum, her sleeping-chamber. In Roman houses, the sleeping quarters were the smallest, the worst ventilated of all.

Felicia Buttz Clark - Virgilia : or, out of the Lion's Mouth