I.that serves for spreading or covering over any thing (viz., over a bed).
I. Adj.: vestis, a covering, bedspread, coverlet, blanket, rug, carpet, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; 2, 4, 26; 2, 1, 10; 2, 2, 7; 2, 2, 72; Liv. 39, 6; 34, 7; Hor. S. 2, 3, 118 al.; Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 171; cf.: in strato omne vestimentum contineri, quod iniciatur, Labeo ait; neque enim dubium est, quin stragula vestis sit omne pallium, quod Graeci περίστρωμα vocant. In victu ergo vestem accipiemus, non stragula, in stratu omnem stragulam vestem, Dig. 50, 16, 45.—
II. As subst. freq.
1. strāgŭla , ae, f.
a. A pall, a covering for a corpse, Petr. 78, 1.—
b. A horse-cloth, Dig. 34, 2, 25, § 3.—
2. strāgŭlum , i, n., a spread, covering, rug, carpet, mattress, etc. (cf.: “tapes, tapetum): hac (culcita) quicquid insternebant, a sternendo stragulum appellabant,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 167 Müll.; cf. Sen. Ep. 87, 2.—Of a bed-covering, bedspread, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61; Plin. 8, 58, 83, § 226; Tib. 1, 2, 79; Mart. 14, 147 al.—Of a covering for a corpse, Petr. 42, 6; Suet. Ner. 50. —Of a horse-cloth, blanket, housing: “veredi,” Mart. 14, 86, 1.—Of any thing soft put under brooding fowls, Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 100; Sol. 7, § 29.
