A dictionary of Greek and Roman . laid with gold, andconsequently we find Sicppovs iirixpvaovs, frpovovsKaraxpuvovs, rbv dicppov rhv nexpvffwixivov, re-curring constantly in Dion Cassius, who frequently,however, employs the simple form Sicppoi shape it long remained extremely plain, closelyresembling a common folding (plicatilis) camp stoolwith crooked legs. These last gave rise to thename aynvKoTrovs di<ppos, found in Plutarch (Ma-rius, 5) ; they strongly remind us of elephantsteeth, which they may have been intended to imi-tate, and the emperor Aurelian proposed t
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . laid with gold, andconsequently we find Sicppovs iirixpvaovs, frpovovsKaraxpuvovs, rbv dicppov rhv nexpvffwixivov, re-curring constantly in Dion Cassius, who frequently,however, employs the simple form Sicppoi shape it long remained extremely plain, closelyresembling a common folding (plicatilis) camp stoolwith crooked legs. These last gave rise to thename aynvKoTrovs di<ppos, found in Plutarch (Ma-rius, 5) ; they strongly remind us of elephantsteeth, which they may have been intended to imi-tate, and the emperor Aurelian proposed to con-struct one in which each foot was to consist of anenormous tusk entire. (Vopiscus, Firm. 3.) The form of the sella curulis, as it is commonlyrepresented upon the denarii of the Roman fa-milies, is given in p. 520. In the following cut arerepresented two pair of bronze legs, belonging tosellae curules, preserved in the museum at Naples(Museo Borbonico, vol. vi. tav. 28) ; and a sellacurulis, copied from the Vatican collection. SELLA. 1015. 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
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