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(client Create a sketch of the apartment and C Ar lack Living in Roman Antiquity My country house is spacious for its purposes, maintenance is not expensive. First, there is the sparsely equipped, but not poor entrance hall (atrium); then follows a colonnade (porticus), which is in the shape of a D, of which a rather small, but cozy courtyard is enclosed. Here you have an excellent opportunity, to retreat in bad weather; because windows and especially protruding roofs protect you. In the middle opposite there is a cheerful reception room, next to it a very nice dining room, which runs to the beach and, once the sea is stirred up by the southwest wind, is easily washed by already broken and receding waves... On the other side is the very tastefully furnished living room (cubiculum), This is followed by either a large living room or a moderately large dining room, which is illuminated by lots of sunshine and the strong shine of the sea... Then follows a spacious and wide bathroom for cold baths, on whose opposite sides two bathtubs curve, as if they were highlighted. Both are excessively large, when you think about it, how close the sea is. This is followed by a room for anointing, the central heating and a boiler room for the bathroom, then two more tasteful than elaborate chambers. This is connected to a wonderful pool for warm baths, from which one, when you swim in it, can look at the sea, and very close by is a hall for ball games, which is only illuminated by the sun very late in the summer. (Pliny, Epist. 2,17,3-12) Männer wie Pliny gaben sich nach ihren poli- tischen Pflichten in Rom gerne der Muße in einer villa rustica hin. Pliny besaß mehrere luxuriöse Güter in ganz Italien, on which for-don Ho and