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

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Grabātus

（κράβατος or κράββατος, the French grabat). A small low couch or bed of the commonest

Grabatus. (Rich.)

description ( Div. ii. 63; Moret. 5), such as was used by poor people, having a mere network of cords stretched over the frame (Hor. Sat. vi. 13; Gerlach. Petron. 97.4), to support the mattress, precisely as represented by the annexed illustration from a terra-cotta lamp.

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

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