I.a staging made of boards, a scaffold, platform, pulpit, for public representations, lectures, disputations; and esp. as a stage for actors, Suet. Ner. 13; id. Gram. 4 fin.; Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 40: “percurrit pulpita socco,” id. ib. 2, 1, 174; id. A. P. 215: “modicis instravit pulpita tignis,” id. ib. 279; Prop. 4, 1, 15 (5, 1, 16): “longa per angustos figamus pulpita vicos,” Juv. 6, 78; 3, 174: “vati, quem pulpita pascunt,” id. 7, 93; 14, 256: “ludibria scaenā et pulpito digna,” Plin. Ep. 4, 25, 4 al.
pulpĭtum , i, n. in sing. and plur.,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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