1.a seat, chair, Hom.: a throne, chair of state, Hdt., attic:—in pl. also, the throne, i. e. the king's estate or dignity, Soph.
2.the oracular seat of Apollo or the Pythia, Aesch., etc.
3.the chair of a teacher, Lat. cathedra, Plat.
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