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

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Suggestus

A Latin word denoting any elevated place made by heaping up materials (suggero):

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1.

the platform from which orators addressed the people at the Comitia;

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2.

the place from which a general harangued his troops (see Contio); and

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3.

the seat (also called cubiculum) from which the emperor beheld the public games.