stramen

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

strāmen, ĭnis, n. [sterno, I.],

straw , litter spread under any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose); sing.: tectam stramine vidit Forte casam, Ov. M. 5, 447; id. H. 5, 15; Verg. A. 11, 67; Sil. 10, 562; Plin. 10, 54, 75, § 152 al.— Plur. , Ov. M. 3, 701; id. F. 3, 184; Stat. Th. 6, 56: straminum mollities, of a bed, Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 8.

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