Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Coenatio

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COENA'TIO. Seems to be a general term, applied to any kind of eating-room; as well to the sumptous banqueting-halls of the golden palace of Nero (Sueton. Nero, 31.), as to the ordinary dining parlour of Pliny's villa. (Plin. Epist. ii. 17. 10. Ib. v. 6. 21.) Like the coenaculum, it was situated up stairs (Juv. vii. 183. Mart. Ep. ii. 59.); and in this respect differed from triclinium, which, in the Pompeian houses, is always placed upon the ground-floor.