Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Discubitus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DISCU'BITUS, DIS'CUBO. These words denote the taking of a place, and reclining at meal-time, as described s. ACCUBO; but, strictly speaking, when they are used, allusion is made to the whole company, that is, to a number of persons who recline together upon different couches (Val. Max. ii. 1. 9. Cic. Att. v. 1.), as seen in the illustration s. TRICLINIUM, 1.