sedile

sĕdīle, is, n. [sedeo], a seat, bench, stool, chair, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; syn.: sella, scamnum); sing.:

membra senex posito jussit relevare sedili,

Ov. M. 8, 639; id. Med. Fac. 13; Verg. A. 8, 176; Cels. 1, 3, 22; cf. id. 1, 8, 66:

se in sedili suo tenere,

Sen. Ep. 70, 23; Gell. 2, 2, 8.— Plur., of the seats in a theatre:

sedilibus magnus in primis eques sedet,

Hor. Epod. 4, 15; so,

spissa nimis complere sedilia flatu,

id. A. P. 205; cf.:

lignea in Campo Martio,

Suet. Aug. 43.—Of other seats, Verg. G. 4, 350; id. A. 1, 167:

factaque de vivo pressere sedilia saxo,

Ov. M. 5, [p. 1660] 317:

e marmore,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 40.—Of the rowers' banks or benches in a vessel, Verg. A. 5, 837:

avium,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 13.—

II.

Transf., a sitting still:

post iter primum sedile, deinde unctio,

Cels. 1, 3:

alvum adstringit labor, sedile,

id. ib.