Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lasanum

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. 

LAS'ANUM (λάσανον). Properly a Greek word, which the Latins express by Sella familiarica; a night-stool (Hor. Sat. i. 6. 109. Pet. Sat. xli. 9. xlvii. 5.); and as the original notion of the Greek word means a trivet for kitchen utensils to stand upon, it is easy to imagine the exact nature of a Greek and Roman lasanum.