id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7345 Lesche - Wikipedia .html text/html 808 124 75 In these passages, however, in which are the earliest examples of the use of the word, it seems to refer to places distinct from the smiths' workshops, though resorted to in the same manner; and we may gather from the grammarians, that there were in the Greek cities numerous small buildings or porticoes, furnished with seats, and exposed to the sun, to which the idle resorted to enjoy conversation, and the poor to obtain warmth and shelter, and which were called leschai: at Athens alone there were 360 such.[4][5][6] The Suda, referring to a passage in Hesiod, explains lesche (λέσχη) by means of the word kaminos (κάμινος, "oven" or "furnace").[7] Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7345.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7345.txt