[Meaning] bed-chambers.
*kli/sia: ta\ koubou/kleia.
Neuter plural(s). The Homeric (
Odyssey 24.208) headword is taken to refer to shepherds' huts: "and all about it ran the sheds in which ate, and sat, and slept the servants that were bondsmen".
The definition appearing here originates in
Moeris'
Attic Lexicon ("
klisi/a are where couples stay", repeated in the
Etymologicum Gudianum and
Etymologicum Magnum), and especially
Porphyrius,
Quaestionum Homericarum ad Odysseam pertinentium reliquiae ad loc.: after defining
kli/sion as comparable to
klisi/a (
kappa 1811,
kappa 1812),
Porphyrius goes on: "The place containing many beds and seats was called a
kli/sion, in the same way we call it
koitw/n [bed-chamber, from
kei=mai 'lie down'], Attic calls [our
koitw/n] a
dwma/tion 'room, bedroom', and
Homer a
qa/lamos 'chamber'." At the end of his extensive scholion, trying to work out what the word means,
Porphyrius still situates the
kli/sion outside the house.
The gloss is derived from Latin
cubiculum (see Lampe s.v.).
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