The corpus record — Latin

sedile

sedile · n

a seat

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Where it lives

Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sĕdīle — Lewis & Short

sĕdīle, is, n.sedeo,

I a seat, bench, stool, chair, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; syn.: sella, scamnum); sing.: membra senex posito jussit relevare sedili, Ov. M. 8, 639; id. Med. Fac. 13; Verg. A. 8, 176; Cels. 1, 3, 22; cf. id. 1, 8, 66: se in sedili suo tenere, Sen. Ep. 70, 23; Gell. 2, 2, 8.—Plur., of the seats in a theatre: sedilibus magnus in primis eques sedet, Hor. Epod. 4, 15; so, spissa nimis complere sedilia flatu, id. A. P. 205; cf.: lignea in Campo Martio, Suet. Aug. 43.—Of other seats, Verg. G. 4, 350; id. A. 1, 167: factaque de vivo pressere sedilia saxo, Ov. M. 5, 317: e marmore, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 40.—Of the rowers' banks or benches in a vessel, Verg. A. 5, 837: avium, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 13.—

II Transf., a sitting still: post iter primum sedile, deinde unctio, Cels. 1, 3: alvum adstringit labor, sedile, id. ib.

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