Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Area

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Any open space (purus locus).

A site

Area before a Sepulchre. (Villa Corsini, Rome.)

for a building.

The site of a house pulled down in consequence of its owner's treason and devoted to religious uses (Ad Att. iv. 1, 2).

An open space in front of a temple, house, sepulchre, or public building.

A market-place.

A threshing-floor (ἁλῶς).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)