Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hospitium
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.
HOSPIT'IUM. A general term for any place which affords to the traveller or stranger a temporary accommodation of board and lodging, whether it be the house of a friend, a public inn, or a hired lodging. Cic. Phil. xii. 9. Id. Senect. 23. Liv. v. 28.
2. The quarter occupied by a soldier who is billeted on a private individual. Suet. Tib. 37.