I. A broad way in a city, a street (class.): “quis hic est qui in plateam ingreditur?” Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 21: “in hac habitasse plateă dictum est Chrysidem,” Ter. And. 4, 5, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 27: “purae sunt plateae,” Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 71.—
II. An open space in a house, an area, court-yard (post-class.), Lampr. Elag. 24.