Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lectulus

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. 

LEC'TULUS (κλινίδιον). Diminutive of LECTUS, both as regards inferiority of size, furniture, and materials. It is thus a small or simple couch for sleeping (Cic. Cat. i. 4. Id. Fin. ii. 30.), or for dining (Id. Mur. 36.); and very generally, a sort of sofa, forming part of the usual furniture in a study (Plin. Ep. v. 5. 5. Ov. Trist. i. 11. 39.), and on which it was a common practice to recline at length while reading, and even writing, the tablet being placed against one knee, which was raised up as a support for the purpose. The annexed example (Lectulus/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, compared with the following illustration and description, will explain the difference between the lectulus and lectus.

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  Lectulus/1.1