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Scabellum

A small square stool with a single step or a single height. The word is a diminutive of scamnum (q. v.). Cf. Quint. i. 4, 12.

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

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