CUBI´CULUM
CUBI´CULUM usually means a sleeping and dwelling
room in a Roman house [
DOMUS],
but also applied to the pavilion or box in which the Roman emperors were
accustomed to witness the public games. (
Suet. Nero
12; Plin.
Paneg. 51.) It appears to have been so
called, because the emperors were accustomed to recline in the cubicula,
instead of sitting, as was anciently the practice, in a sella curulis.
(Ernesti,
ad Suet. l.c.)
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