BED Copy link • BEDlectus; lectulus (either to deep in or rest on): lectus cubicularis; cubile (a bed to sleep in; torus is seldom used except in poetry): grabatus (a low couch to rest on, either for invalids or students, σκίμπους): lecticula lucubratoria (a couch on which the ancients rested by day, in order to meditate and study): lectus genialis (the marriage bed): sponda (a bedstead); strata or stragula, alto with cubicularia, noun plur. understood (all the parts belonging to a couch or bed): alveus (the bed of a river): to make the bed, lectum sternere: to go to bed, ad lectum transgredi (Suet., Oct., 76); cubitum ire or discedere; dormitum se conferre; quieti se tradere: to get out of bed, surgere, with or without cubitu, or e lectulo: to put to bed, collocare aliquem in cubili: to keep one’s bed, in lecto esse; lecto teneri; lecto affixum esse. I cannot get out of bed for the life of me, prorsum e lectulo surgere nequeo: to be separated from bed and board, cubilibus discerni (Tac., hist., 5, 5, 2): to die on the bed of honor, in acie cadere; egregia morte defungi. PROV., Early to bed and early to rise, etc., mane quod to occeperis negotium, id totum procedit diem (Plaut.: sometimes Aurora Mosis amica). To be brought to bed, parere; partum edere: to be brought to bed of a son, filium parere. Bed-chamber, cubiculum dormitorium, or only dormitorium (Plin., 30, 6, 17): cubiculum noctis et somni (Plin., Ep., 2, 17, 22): zotheca; zothecula (a little cabinet to sleep in, Plin., Ep., 2, 17, 21; 5, 6, 38): tie bed-rooms (as a part of the house), dormitorium membrum (Plin.). Bed-clothes, opertorium lecti (the coverlet: opposed to stragulum, the mattress. Vid: Sen., Ep., 87, 2): lodix; lodicula. Bed-fellow, lecti socius. Bed-post, fulcrum lecti. Bed-ridden, lecto affixus. Bed-time, tempus dormiendi. Bed in a garden, area; areola. Hot-bed, area stercore satiata: area vitreis munita (if with frames, Conf. Plin., 19, 5, 23). To lay out in beds, areis distinguere: in areas dividere. A violet-bed, violarium. An oyster-bed, ostrearium (artificial). Beds of sulphur, sulphurata (sc. loca). Layer, Vid.