Crossword-Solution: DOMA 4 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The floor is raised about eighteen inches above the ground, and in these tea-houses is frequently a matted platform with a recess called the _doma_, literally “earth-space,” in the middle, round which runs a ledge of polished wood called the _itama_, or “board space,” on which travellers sit while they bathe their soiled feet with the water which is immediately brought to them; for neither with soiled feet nor in foreign shoes must one advance one step on the matted floor.

Noack objects that when Odysseus fumigates his house, after slaying the Wooers, he thus treats the _megaron_, _AND_ the _doma_, _AND_ the courtyard.

Monro writes, "_doma_ usually means _megaron_," and he supposes a slip from another reading, _thalamon_ for _megaron_, which is not satisfactory.

But if _doma_ here be not equivalent to _megaron_, what room can it possibly be? Who was killed in another place? what place therefore needed purification except the hall and courtyard? No other places needed purifying; there is therefore clearly a defect in the lines which cannot be used in the argument.

The patronage which attended him was of the most elevated kind, being dispensed by the illustrious houses of Mantua and Modena, as well as by the institution of the Doma of Parma.