I.straw, litter spread under any thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose); sing.: “tectam stramine vidit Forte casam,” Ov. M. 5, 447; id. H. 5, 15; Verg. A. 11, 67; Sil. 10, 562; Plin. 10, 54, 75, § 152 al.—Plur., Ov. M. 3, 701; id. F. 3, 184; Stat. Th. 6, 56: “straminum mollities, of a bed,” Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 8.
strāmen , ĭnis, n. sterno, I.,