Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Praesepes

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. 

PRAESE'PES, -E'PIS, -E'PIA, -E'PE and -E'PIUM. Literally, any place which is protected in front by a hedge or a fence; whence referred to a pen for sheep (Varro, R. R. ii. 2. 19.); a stall for cattle (Cato, R. R. 14. 1.); a stable for horses (Virg. Aen. vii. 275.); and the manger in a stall or stable (Suet. Cal. 55. Columell. i. 6. 6.), for which the technical term is PATENA, under which an illustration is given.