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sessĭo , ōnis, f. id.,
I.a sitting (Ciceronian).
I. In gen.: “status, incessus, sessio, accubitio, etc.,” Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128; id. N. D. 1, 34, 94; plur.: “sessiones quaedam,” id. Fin. 5, 12, 35.—
B. Concr., a seat, sitting-place: “sessiones gymnasiorum,” Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20: “Polemonis,” id. Fin. 5, 1, 2.—
2. The seat of the body, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 3, 50.—
II. In partic.
A. A sitting idly, a loitering, a tarrying in a place: “sessio Capitolina,” Cic. Att. 14, 14, 2: “pigra sessio,” App. M. 4, p. 148 fin.—
B. A sitting, session (syn. consessus); “for discussion: pomeridiana sessio,” Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 121; “of a court: dies sessionum,” Dig. 38, 15, 2, § 1.—
C. A sittingbath, sitz - bath, = ἐγκάθισμα, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 4, 69.
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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