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subsellĭum , ii, n. sub-sella,
I.a low bench (quod non plane erat sella, subsellium, Varr. L. L. 5, § 128 Müll.); hence, transf., a bench for sitting upon, a seat of any kind (in a house, the theatre, the curia, a court, etc.; syn.: scamnum, sedile).
I. In gen., Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 21; 1, 2, 36; id. Capt. 3, 1, 11; Suet. Ter. 2; cf. Cels. 7, 26, 1.—Of places in the theatre: “ut conquisitores singuli in subsellia Eant per totam caveam, etc.,Plaut. Am. prol. 65; id. Poen. prol. 5; Cic. Corn. Fragm. med. (ap. Orell. V. 2, p. 68); Suet. Aug. 43; 44; id. Ner. 26; id. Claud. 41 al.—Of the seats of senators in the curia: “volo, hoc oratori contingat, ... ut locus in subselliis occupetur, etc.,Cic. Brut. 84, 290: “subsellia senatūs,id. Phil. 5, 7, 18; cf. id. ib. 2, 8, 19; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; Suet. Claud. 23 al.—In the courts, Cic. Vatin. 14, 34: “sedere in accusatorum subselliis,id. Rosc. Am. 6, 17: “advocato adversis subselliis sedenti,Quint. 11, 3, 132; cf. id. 6, 1, 39; 12, 3, 2.—Prov.: “vir imi subselli,a man of no account, Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 33.—
II. In partic.
A. Lit., a judge's seat, the bench: “accusabat tribunus plebis idem in contionibus, idem ad subsellia,Cic. Clu. 34, 93: “rem ab subselliis in rostra detulit,id. ib. 40, 111.—
B. Transf.
1. The bench, i. e. the occupants of a bench: “bibis quantum subsellia quinque solus,Mart. 1, 27, 1. —
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.10.2
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    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 6.17
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    • Plautus, Stichus, 3.2
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    • Suetonius, Nero, 26
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.prol
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    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7.26
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 1.39
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 3.2
    • Cicero, Brutus, 84.289
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