Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cervīcal

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Cervīcal

（προσκεφάλαιον, ποτίκρανον). A pillow

Bed with Cervical. (Pompeii.)

or cushion, to support the head or shoulder, on a bed or dining-couch (Mart.xiv. 146; Suet. Ner. 6). The word is also used, like its Greek equivalents, in a less special sense to denote any cushion (Juv.vi. 353; Petron. 32, 1). See Pulvinus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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