• SEAT

1.

• s. Place in which one sits or may sit, sessio: sedile (place in which one may sit): sedes (place in which one sits). To take the highest, lowest seat, supremum, ultimum, capere locum.
• That whereon one sits, sedes: sella. A raised seat, solium: seats in the circus, fori (plur.): seats of the senators, subsellia (plur.): to take one’s seat, sedem capere (Liv., 1, 18): seat of justice, tribunal.
• Place of abode, sedes: domicilium: habitatio: deversorium (an inn): cubile: lustrum (lair of a wild animal): latibulum: receptaculum (a hiding-place; the first especially of animals): refugium: perfugium; (The words are found in this connection and order.) portus et perfugium: portus et refugium: receptus tutus (a place of refuge). Seats of the gods, sedes, spatia immortalium: to change one’s seat, sedem alio transferre: seat of government, sedes, domicilium, imperii, regni: seat of war, locus belli gerendi (Cic.); sedes belli (Liv.): to change the seat of war, bellum (sedem belli) in alias terras transferre (Liv., 21, 21).
• Country-house, villa

2. v. sede locare, collocare, ponere. To seat one’s self, sedem capere, considere (PROP.): considere: residere (Cic.): subsidere (Verg.): sedem ac domicilium collocare aliquo loco (Cic., figuratively = to settle): to seat one’s self at table (after the manner of the ancients), accumbere: decumbere: recumbere; (according to our custom), ad mensam considere