Solium, solij, n. g. Liu.A place of estate where a King sitteth: a throne. Eburno solio fultus. Claud. Aureum solium.Virg.Regale.Ouid. Sublime, Ouid. Surgere solio. Vir. Tollere se solio. Virg. Solium Plin.A dessell seruing to diners dses, as to transferre licour, to washe in, to bath in, and sometime was made of siluer.Descendere in solium. Cels. Desidêre in solio. Cels. Solium Plin.A beere: a coffyn for dead bodies.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sŏlĭum, ii, n. [from the root sol, kindr. with sed, sedeo], a seat.I. Most usu. of gods, kings, or other distinguished personages. A.Lit., a seat, chair of state, throne (cf.: thronus, tribunal): regali in solio sedens, Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 69: domus regia et in domo regale solium, Liv. 1, 47, 4; cf.: solio rex infit ab alto, Verg. A. 11, 301: solio tum Juppiter aureo Surgit, id. ib. 10, 116; so, Jovis, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 34; Suet. Calig. 57: divinum, Cic. Rep. 3, 8, 12: deorum solia, id. Har. Resp. 27, 57: regale (Jovis), Ov. F. 6, 353: sedens in solio consulantibus respondere (of solicitors), Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 10; id. de Or. 2, 33, 143: sedet Sollemni solio, Ov. M. 14, 262: acernum, Verg. A. 8, 178: eburnum, i. e. sella curulis, Claud. Laud. Stil. 3, 199; id. VI. Cons Hon. 588.—B.Meton. like our throne, for rule, sway, dominion (mostly poet.): pristina majestas soliorum et sceptra superba, Lucr. 5, 1137; cf.: solio sceptroque potitur, Ov. H. 14, 113; cf. Val. Fl. 2, 309; 6, 742; Hor. C. 2, 2, 17: solio avorum aliquem depellere, Luc. 4, 690; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 213: Demetrium in paterno solio locaturi, Liv. 39, 53, 4: Pacorum avito Arsacidarum solio depulsuri, Tac. H. 1, 40: paternum solium per vim, per arma capere, Lact. 1, 10, 10.—II.A tub, esp. for bathing, Lucr. 6, 800; Cato, R. R. 10, 4; Cels. 1, 3; 1, 4; 7, 26, 5; Liv. 44, 6; Plin. 33, 12, 54, 152; Suet. Aug. 82 fin.; Pall. 1, 40, 3; 1, 41, 1.—For other purposes, Plin. 19, 2, 8, 28.—III.A stone coffin for persons of distinction, a sarcophagus: solium Porphyretici marmoris, Suet. Ner. 50; cf. Curt. 10, 10, 9; Flor. 4, 11 fin.; Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 343 al.