I.a place where any thing is laid up, a repository (post-Aug.).
I. In gen.: “tormentorum muralium,” Amm. 18, 9, 1.—
II. Specif.
A. A place for preserving a dead body or the ashes of the dead, a coffin, Suet. Aug. 18; id. Calig. 52; Plin. 37, 2, 7, § 19.—