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bisellium

[ bahy-sel-ee-uhm ]

noun

plural bisellia
  1. an ancient Roman seat of honor for two persons.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bisellium1

< Latin, equivalent to bi- bi- 1 + sell ( a ) seat (cognate with settle 2 ) + -ium -ium
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A circular table of cedar wood, inlaid with ivory and brass, so that its value could not have fallen far short of ten thousand sesterces5, stood in the centre of the floor-cloth; with a bisellium, or double settle, wrought in bronze, and two beautiful chairs of the same material not much dissimilar in form to those now used.

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Nevoleia Tyché, freedwoman of Julia, for herself and for Caius Munatius Faustus, knight and mayor of the suburb, to whom the decurions, with the consent of the people, had awarded the honor of the bisellium.

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