Pegma, pégmatis, pen. cor. n. g. A stage or frame whereon pageants be set and caried, or wherein plate or sewesies doe stand to be looked on.Pegmates.They that play in such portable stages as are caried in sightes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pēgma, ătis, n., = ph=gma, a fixturemade of boards, for use or ornament, belonging to a house. I. In gen.: atricrum pegmata, Aus. Epigr. 26: in emptionem domus et specularia et pegmata cedere solent, Dig. 33, 7, 12.—II. In partic. A.A bookcase, Cic. Att. 4, 8, a fin.—B.A piece of wooden machinery in the theatre, which rose and fell, opened and shut of itself, and with which players were suddenly raised aloft, Sen. Ep. 88, 19; Plin. 33, 3, 16, 53: si automatum vel pegma vel quid tale aliud parum cessisset, Suet. Claud. 34; Phaedr 5, 7, 7; Juv. 4, 122; Mart. 8, 33, 3; Vop. Carin. 19.