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triclinium

triclinium · n

a couch running round three sides of a table for reclining on at meals

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Satyricon 25 · 8.22/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Divus Claudius 4 · 6.26/10k
Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 3 · 5.18/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
C. Caligula 3 · 3.93/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trīclīnĭum — Lewis & Short

trīclīnĭum, ii, n., = trikli/nion,

I a couch running round three sides of a table for reclining on at meals, an eating-couch, table-couch.

I Lit.: triclinio posito cenabimus, Varr. R. R. 3, 13, 2: sternere, id. L. L. 9, § 9 Müll.: habueris quinquaginta tricliniorum lectos, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183: in triclinio, quod in foro straverat, id. ib. 2, 3, 25, § 61; id. Mur. 36, 75; id. Att. 13, 52, 1 and 2; Plin. 33, 11, 52, § 146; Mart. 10, 13, 3 al.—

II Transf., a room for eating in, a dining - room, supper - room: hiberna et aestiva, Varr. L. L. 8, § 29 Müll.; Libo ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 263; Phaedr. 4, 23, 28; Manil. 5, 507.

Where it came from

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