Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ganea

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. 

GA'NEA or GA'NEUM. An eating-house of the lowest and most immoral description, at which facilities were afforded for every kind of indulgence, as well as eating and drinking. (Suet. Cal. 11. Ter. Adelph. iii. 3. 5. Liv. xxvi. 2.) A receptacle of this kind has been discovered in the principal street at Pompeii, near the entrance to the town; the public room is fitted up as a wine shop, and gives admission into a back parlour, the walls of which are painted in fresco with a variety of indelicate subjects, characteristic of the purposes to which it was applied.