Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Diaeta

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. 

DIAE'TA (δίαιτα). The name given to some particular department in ancient houses, the precise nature of which is not distinctly known. Thus much, however, is certain, that it consisted of several rooms adjoining one another, and contained within the suite both eating and sleeping rooms. Plin. Epist. ii. 17. 12. and 20. Ib. vi. 21. Ib. vii. 5. 1.

2. (σκηνή). A cabin or tent erected on the deck at the stern of a vessel, as in the annexed example (Diaeta/1.1), from the Vatican Virgil. It was appropriated to the use of the chief person in command; or to the magister, in a merchantman. Pet. Sat. 15. 1.

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  Diaeta/1.1