chair (subs.) Copy link Outline I. a seat1. sella2. căthĕdra (an easy couch-like chair)II. The office of a public teacher or officer • chair (subs.): I. a seat: 1. sella: why don't you give him a c.? datin' isti s.? Pl.: a curule c. (a portable chair for the higher magistrates), s. curulis, Cic.: Hor.: a sedan c., s. gestatoria, Suet.: the back of a c., arcus sellae, Tac. Phr.: the arm of a c., ancōn, ōnis, m.: Coel. Aur. 2. căthĕdra (an easy couch-like chair): Hor.: Juv. II. The office of a public teacher or officer: căthĕdra: Aus. Phr.: a man who has passed the c., i. e. been chief officer or magistrate, vir censorius, consularis, praetorius, etc., according to the nature of the office held.