sessio

sessĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a sitting (Ciceronian).

I.

In gen.:

status, incessus, sessio, accubitio, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128; id. N. D. 1, 34, 94; plur.:

sessiones quaedam,

id. Fin. 5, 12, 35.—

B.

Concr., a seat, sitting-place:

sessiones gymnasiorum,

Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 20:

Polemonis,

id. Fin. 5, 1, 2.—

2.

The seat of the body, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 3, 50.—

II.

In partic.

A.

A sitting idly, a loitering, a tarrying in a place:

sessio Capitolina,

Cic. Att. 14, 14, 2:

pigra sessio,

App. M. 4, p. 148 fin. —

B.

A sitting, session (syn. consessus);

for discussion: pomeridiana sessio,

Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 121;

of a court: dies sessionum,

Dig. 38, 15, 2, § 1.—

C.

A sittingbath, sitz - bath, = enkathisma, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 4, 69.