Accubita

Accubita

Of Ancient Roman furniture, "accubita" was the name of couches used in the time of the Roman emperors, instead of the "triclinium", for reclining upon at meals. The mattresses and feather-beds were softer and higher, and the supports ("fulcra") of them lower in proportion, than in the triclinium. The clothes and pillows spread over them were called "accubitalia". [Aelius Lampridius, "Augustan History", "Antoninus Heliogabalus" (Pars II), 19, 25; Schol. "ad Juv. Sat." v.17]

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