Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sponda

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. 

SPON'DA (ἐνήλατον). Any one of the four bars in the frame of a sofa, or a bedstead (lectus), to which the cords supporting the mattress (torus) are affixed (Pet. Sat. 97. 4. Ov. Met. viii. 656.), as exhibited by the above example (Sponda/1.1) from the device on a terra-cotta lamp. But when the bedstead or sofa was furnished with sides and a backboard (pluteus), as in the annexed example (Sponda/1.2) from a Roman bas-relief, the open rail or front, at which the occupant got into it, was termed sponda more expressly (Mart. iii. 91. Hor. Epod. iii. 22.), and the part against the back sponda interior. Isidor. Orig. xx. 11. 5. Suet. Caes. 49.

2. A couch or bier upon which the dead were carried out. Mart. x. 5. 9.

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  Sponda/1.1
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  Sponda/1.2