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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mansion

The Latin mansio was simply a tent pitched for soldiers on the march; and, hence a “day's journey” (Pliny, xii. 14). Subsequently the word was applied to a roadside house for the accommodation of strangers.

(Suetonius Tit. 10).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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