I.that which serves for spreading or littering.
I. Straw, litter (syn. palea): “fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum incenderunt,” bundles of straw, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15: “desectam cum stramento segetem,” Liv. 2, 5, 3; Cato, R. R. 5, 7.—Of a straw-bed: “in stramentis pernoctare,” Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 23; Varr. R. R. 1, 50; Col. 6, 3, 1; Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 79; Phaedr. 2, 8, 23: “si et stramentis incubet,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 117 al.; cf.: “antiquis enim torus e stramento erat,” Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193: “stramentum ab stratu, quod id substernatur pecori,” Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3.—Of a thatched roof: “casae, quae more Gallico stramentis erant tectae,” Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Liv. 25, 39.—
II. A covering, rug, coverlet, housing, etc. (very rare): “mulorum,” Caes. B. G. 7, 45: his verbis et vestimenta et stramenta contineri; “sine his enim vivere neminem posse,” bedclothes, Dig. 50, 16, 234: “cameli,” Vulg. Gen. 31, 34.
