Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Platea

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. 

PLATE'A and PLAT'EA (πλατεῖα, sc. ὁδός.) A broad or principal street in a town, as contradistinguished from a bye-lane or back-street (angiportus) in the same. Ter. Andr. iv. 5. 1. Hor. Ep. ii. 2. 71. Caes. B. C. i. 27. Hirt. B. Alex. 2.