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I. A cushion, bolster, squab, pillow to sit or lie upon: “mane pulvinum,” Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 38: “Crassum pulvinus poposcisse,” Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 29; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, § 27; id. Fam. 9, 18, 4: “epistula super caput in pulvino posita,” Sall. J. 71, 4: “epistulam pulvino subicere,” Curt. 3, 6, 7; Nep. Pelop. 3, 2.—

B. Transf., a seat of honor: “honestiorem te aut turpiorem potest facere pulvinus?” Sen. Ira, 3, 37, 4; Cels. 3, 18; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 16, 2; Suet. Tib. 73; id. Calig. 12; Mart. 3, 82, 7; Juv. 3, 154.—

II. An elevation in the fields, a raised border, ridge, bank, bed, Varr. R. R. 1, 35, 1; Col. 11, 3, 20; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 159; 19, 4, 20, § 60; 22, 22, 34, § 76; Pall. 3, 24, 13; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 16.—

III. A bolstering or surbase of brick, to cover the joint between the walls and floor of a barn, Col. 1, 6, 13.—

IV. A sand-bank in the sea, Serv. Verg. A. 10, 302.—

V. A structure of stone in the water, upon which to erect a pillar, Vitr. 5, 12, 3.—

VI. A projecting part of a catapult, the pillow, bolster, Vitr. 10, 15.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
- Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.18.4
- Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.27
- Plautus, Stichus, 1.2
- Suetonius, Caligula, 12
- Vitruvius, On Architecture, 10.15
- Vitruvius, On Architecture, 5.12.3
- Cicero, On Oratory, 1.7
- Suetonius, Tiberius, 73
- Cornelius Nepos, Pelopidas, 3.2
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.60
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 22.76
- Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 5.6.16
- Seneca, de Ira, 3.37.4
- A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 3.18
- Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 71
- Columella, Res Rustica, 1.6.13
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 3.6.7

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