Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lectisternium

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. 

LECTISTER'NIUM. A religious ceremony amongst the Romans, comprising a sumptuous banquet offered to the gods, at which their statues were brought out and placed upon tricliniary couches (lecti) at a table furnished with every kind of delicacy, and provided under the direction of the Epulones. (Liv. xxii. 10. v. 3. xl. 59.) The illustration (Lectisternium/1.1) represents a lectisternium given to Serapis, Isis, Sol, and Luna, from a terra-cotta lamp.

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