Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lautia

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. 

LAU'TIA. Presents which it was customary to bestow upon the ambassadors of foreign nations who came upon a mission to Rome, consisting of provisions and such things as were necessary to their maintenance during their residence in the city. Liv. xxviii. 39. xxx. 17. xlv. 20.