Subsellium, subsellij, n. g. Subsellia. Pers. Seates or benthes, wheron men sate in the theatre to behold, or wheron iudges sate in courtes: sometime Iudges. Subsellia, etiam erant iudicum.Cic.A subsellijs in rostra rem deferre.Cic.To bring the matter from the iudges into the common place before the people.Tetrica subsellia. Auson. The senere indgement places. Subsellia, Sedes in theatro. Suet. Subsellia, Vbi sedebant rei, & accusatores, & restes, Cice. Subsellia pro ipsis iudicibus aliquando accipitur. Mart.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
subsellĭum, ii, n. [sub-sella], a low bench (quod non plane erat sella, subsellium, Varr. L. L. 5, 128 Müll.); hence, transf., a bench for sitting upon, a seat of any kind (in a house, the theatre, the curia, a court, etc.; syn.: scamnum, sedile). I. In gen., Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 21; 1, 2, 36; id. Capt. 3, 1, 11; Suet. Ter. 2; cf. Cels. 7, 26, 1.—Of places in the theatre: ut conquisitores singuli in subsellia Eant per totam caveam, etc., Plaut. Am. prol. 65; id. Poen. prol. 5; Cic. Corn. Fragm. med. (ap. Orell. V. 2, p. 68); Suet. Aug. 43; 44; id. Ner. 26; id. Claud. 41 al.—Of the seats of senators in the curia: volo, hoc oratori contingat, ... ut locus in subselliis occupetur, etc., Cic. Brut. 84, 290: subsellia senatūs, id. Phil. 5, 7, 18; cf. id. ib. 2, 8, 19; id. Cat. 1, 7, 16; Suet. Claud. 23 al.—In the courts, Cic. Vatin. 14, 34: sedere in accusatorum subselliis, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 17: advocato adversis subselliis sedenti, Quint. 11, 3, 132; cf. id. 6, 1, 39; 12, 3, 2.—Prov.: vir imi subselli,
a man of no account
, Plaut. Stich. 3, 2, 33.—II. In partic. A.Lit., a judge's seat, the bench: accusabat tribunus plebis idem in contionibus, idem ad subsellia, Cic. Clu. 34, 93: rem ab subselliis in rostra detulit, id. ib. 40, 111.—B.Transf.1.The bench, i. e. the occupants of a bench: bibis quantum subsellia quinque solus, Mart. 1, 27, 1. —2.A court, tribunal: age vero ne semper forum, subsellia, rostra, curiamque meditere, Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 32: subsellia grandiorem et pleniorem vocem desiderant, id. Brut. 84, 289: longi subsellii judicatio et mora, id. Fam. 3, 9, 2: qui habitaret in subselliis, id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 15, 48: versatus in utrisque subselliis, i. e.