Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sellisternium

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. 

SELLISTER'NIUM. A religious feast offered to the female deities (Val. Max. ii. 1. 2. Tac. Ann. xv. 44.), of the same nature as the LECTISTERNIUM; but with this difference, that their statues were disposed upon settles (sellae), instead of couches (lecti), because the ancient women were not accustomed to recline at table, like the men, but sat upon the edge of the couch, or on a seat apart, as explained by the article and illustrations s. ACCUBO.