A dictionary of Greek and Roman . II. Bisellium. The word is found in no clas-sical author except Varro (L. L. v. 128, ed. Miiller),according to whom it means a seat large enough tocontain two persons. We learn from various in-scriptions that the right of using a seat of thiskind, upon public occasions, was granted as a mark. of honour to distinguished persons by the magis-trates and people in provincial towns. There areexamples of this in an inscription found at Pisa,which called forth the long, learned, ramblingdissertation of Chimentelli (Graev. Thes. vol. vii. p. 2
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . II. Bisellium. The word is found in no clas-sical author except Varro (L. L. v. 128, ed. Miiller),according to whom it means a seat large enough tocontain two persons. We learn from various in-scriptions that the right of using a seat of thiskind, upon public occasions, was granted as a mark. of honour to distinguished persons by the magis-trates and people in provincial towns. There areexamples of this in an inscription found at Pisa,which called forth the long, learned, ramblingdissertation of Chimentelli (Graev. Thes. vol. vii. p. 2030), and in two others foundat Pompeii. (Orell. Inscr. n. 4048, 4044.) Inanother inscription we have Biselliatus Honor(Orell. 4043) ; in another (Orell. 4055), con-taining the roll of an incorporation of carpenters,one of the office-bearers is styled COLLEGI BI-SELLEARI US. (Compare Orell. 4046, 4047.) Two bronze bisellia were discovered at Pompeii,and thus all uncertainty with regard to the form ofthe seat has been removed. One of these is en-graved above. (Mus. Borbon. vol. ii. tav. 31.) III. Sella Gestatoria (, ; Amm. Marc. xxix. 2) or Fertoria (Cae-lius Aurelian. i. 5, ii. 1), a sedan used both intown and country (Tacit, ^te. xiv. 4 ; Suet. ), by men (Tacit. Hist. i. 35, iii. 85 ; 141 ;
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