Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scimpodium

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. 

SCIMPOD'IUM (σκιμπόδιον). A small couch or sofa, of Greek invention; or, rather, an invalid's chair, constructed so as to support the legs and feet in an easy position, like our gouty chair, for it was used by persons subject to that complaint during an access of the malady. Aul. Gell. xix. 10. 1.