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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Subsellium

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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. 

SUBSEL'LIUM. A moveable bench or form supported upon legs, but without any back, and of sufficient length to contain several persons upon it at the same time (Celsus, vii. 26. 1. Varro, L. L. v. 128.); especially used in places where a number of people are assembled together; in a dining-room (Suet. Terent.; auction-room (Id. Cal. 39.); senate-house (Cic. Cat. i. 7. Suet. Claud. 23.); for the judges, lawyers, suitors, and witnesses in a court of justice. (Cic. Vat. 14. Rosc. Am. 6.) The example (Subsellium/1.1) is from an original of bronze found in the baths of Pompeii.

2. In the theatre, amphitheatre, or circus (Plaut. Amph. Prol. 65. Id. Poen. Prol. 5. Suet. Aug. 43. and 44.), a line of seats encircling the interior of the edifice (cavea), and rising in tiers or steps one over the other, as explained and illustrated s. GRADUS, 3.

  • Subsellium/1.1
    Subsellium/1.1

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