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a straw-bed

  • 1 stramentum

    strāmentum, i, n. [sterno, I.], that which serves for spreading or littering.
    I.
    Straw, litter (syn. palea):

    fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum incenderunt,

    bundles of straw, Hirt. B. G. 8, 15:

    desectam cum stramento segetem,

    Liv. 2, 5, 3; Cato, R. R. 5, 7.—Of a straw-bed:

    in stramentis pernoctare,

    Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 23; Varr. R. R. 1, 50; Col. 6, 3, 1; Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 79; Phaedr. 2, 8, 23:

    si et stramentis incubet,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 117 al.; cf.:

    antiquis enim torus e stramento erat,

    Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193:

    stramentum ab stratu, quod id substernatur pecori,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3.—Of a thatched roof:

    casae, quae more Gallico stramentis erant tectae,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Liv. 25, 39.—
    II.
    A covering, rug, coverlet, housing, etc. (very rare):

    mulorum,

    Caes. B. G. 7, 45: his verbis et vestimenta et stramenta contineri;

    sine his enim vivere neminem posse,

    bedclothes, Dig. 50, 16, 234:

    cameli,

    Vulg. Gen. 31, 34.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > stramentum

  • 2 stramen

    strāmen, ĭnis, n. [sterno, I.], straw, litter spread under any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose); sing.:

    tectam stramine vidit Forte casam,

    Ov. M. 5, 447; id. H. 5, 15; Verg. A. 11, 67; Sil. 10, 562; Plin. 10, 54, 75, § 152 al.— Plur., Ov. M. 3, 701; id. F. 3, 184; Stat. Th. 6, 56:

    straminum mollities, of a bed,

    Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 8.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > stramen

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