accubitio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

accŭbĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [accubo].

I A lying or reclining , esp. at meals (in the Rom. manner, on the triclinium or accubitum): accubitio epularis amicorum, Cic. de Sen. 13, 45; cf. Non. 193, 30; so Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 94 (but in Off. 1, 35, 128, the MSS. give accubatio).—

II Concr., a couch , Lampr. Sev. 34; cf. accubitatio.

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