Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Gremium

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. 

GREM'IUM. A lap; that is, the seat or cavity formed by the belly and thighs of a person in sitting posture; upon which, for instance, nurses and mothers place their children (Cic. Div. ii. 41. Virg. Aen. i. 689. Pedo Albin. i. 116.); thence applied in a more special sense to the lap or hollow made by raising up the lower part of a tunic or mantle, as women do their aprons, in order to form a receptacle for holding anything. (Pet. Sat. 60. 4.) Thus, in strictness it differs from sinus, which was formed over the chest, whereas the gremium fell lower down and over the belly, as in the annexed illustration (Gremium/1.1) from a terra-cotta lamp; but this distinction is not always preserved.

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  Gremium/1.1