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.
CHAIR Copy link • CHAIR 1. sedes: sedile (seat, Vid :): sella (chair; also of teachers and magistrates): cathedra (arm or easy-chair for women: later, a professor’s chair). To place a chair for anybody, alicui sellam apponere. The arm or elbow of a chair, arcus sellae (Tac.): ancon (ἀγκών; Caelius Aurelianus Tardae Passiones, 2, 1): ARM-CHAIR, sella obliquis anconibus fabricata (Caelius Aurelianus Tardae Passiones). Chair of state, solium: sella (with epithets; e.g., aurea): sella curulis (according to Roman custom): SEDAN CHIAR, sella: lectica (lectica = “palanquin,” the person being recumbent): sella gestatoria (Suet.): to ride or be carried in a sedan chair, lectica or sella, vehi: gestamine sellae pervehi (of being carried to a place; e.g., Baias, Tac.). 2. v. *aliquem in sellam imposi tum humeris suslevare.