reclining-room

Updated: June 25, 2025

So regular was it to recline that, where we should speak of a sitting-room, the Romans spoke of a "reclining-room." At business they sat; but they reclined in social conversation unless it was brief when reading, when taking the siesta, and when dining. Their beds in the proper sense were similar to our own, though less heavy than those of our older fashion.

T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul