I.a seat, settle, chair, stool (syn.: “sedile, scamnum): viden' ut expalluit! datin' isti sellam, ubi assidat cito,” Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 32; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 28; id. Poen. 1, 2, 56: “scabilla, sellas, solia,” Cato, R. R. 10, 4; 157, 11: “in sellā sedere,” Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104 (corresp. to sedes): “fracta est patris sella,” Petr. 136: “altā deducere sellā,” Juv. 3, 136 al.—
II. Esp.
A. Of a mechanic's work-stool: “ipsum sellae atque operis et quaestus cottidiani locum,” Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17: “in foro sellam ponere,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56.—
B. Of a teacher's chair, Cic. Fam. 9, 18 fin.—
C. Of a portable chair or sedan (different from the lectica, a litter made like a bed): “aut sellā, aut lecticā transire,” Suet. Claud. 25; so (opp. lectica) Dig. 32, 1, 49; Mart. 10, 10, 7; 11, 98, 12; “simply sella,” Suet. Aug. 53; Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 15; Juv. 1, 124 al.; “called also sella gestatoria,” Suet. Ner. 26; id. Vit. 16; Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 27; cf.: “gestamen sellae,” Tac. A. 14, 4; 15, 57.—
D. Of a seat in a coach or wagon, Phaedr. 3, 6, 5.—
E. Of a close-stool, Scrib. Comp. 193; 227; “also called sella familiarica,” Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 4. —
G. Esp., a magistrate's seat or chair (very freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85; id. Div. 1, 52, 119; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; 2, 1, 47, § 124; 2, 2, 38, § 94; Caes. B. C. 3, 20; Liv. 3, 11; 6, 15; Hor. S. 1, 6, 97 et saep.; also called sella curulis; v. curulis.—Prov.: duabus sellis sedere, to sit on two stools, i. e. to keep in with both parties, Laber. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 18 fin.; id. ap. Macr. S. 2, 3.