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

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Aula

（αὐλή). An open yard, or court. In the Homeric house the αὐλή served the purpose of a farm-yard, and was surrounded with farm-buildings and rooms for the men-servants of the house.

In the later Greek house it was a kind of quadrangle surrounded with a colonnade, into which the rooms of the house opened, and was used as a

Wall of the Temple of Ancyra, bearing the Latin Text of the

Index Rerum Gestarum

of Augustus.

place for exercise and recreation (A. Winckler, Die Wohnhäuser der Hellenen). For further particulars, see Domus.

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

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