A table, a bourd, a planke: a booke or register for memorie of things: a table to play on. Imago alicuius in tabulis. Cic. Iisa tabula his literis. Vide INCIDO. pen. prod. Imprimere tabulas parieti, Vide IMPRIMO. Vooa tabula. Horat. A table set vp of one by vowe, in me. morie of daunger that he hath escaped. Arripere tabulam de naufragio. Cicer. To take a bourde or planke for a shift in shipwracke. Ex naufragio tabula, Vide post NAVIS. Cessionem bonorum quasi naufragij tabulam apprehendere. Bud. In extremitie, when his debtonr is not able to pay him, to take in some part of recõpence his goods yelded vp vnto him. Pictæ tabulæ. Hor. Painted tables. Laceræ tabulæ. Oui. Ad tabulam decumbere Varro. Tabula cerata. Pla. A table couered with waxe, that men vsed to write on. Tabula. Liu. A booke: a register: a roll: a papier iournal. A writing table. Tabulæ accepti & expensi. Cic. A reckening booke keeping the accomptes of ones receites or expences. Tabulæ. Cic. Instruments: obligations: letters: common writings: enidences. Tuis tablis causam dicis. Cicer. Thou pleadest as if the indges would giue sentence according to thy only euiden. ces brought in. Tabulæ nouæ. Ci. A general discharge and quittaunce by common authoritie of all debres and obligations pasi before time, without any paying or satisfying of the same. Proscribere tabulam, Cic. Tabulæ, numero plurali, siue per diminutiuum tabellæ. Quint. Tables wherin ones wil or testament is written. Subintelligitur Testamenti. Tabulas testamenti aperire. Caius. Accusare tabulas. Vide ACCVSO. Consicere tabulas, Vide CONFICIO. Consigere tabulas, Vide CONFIGO. Eximere alics nornen de tabulis. Cic. To put ones name out of a will or testament. Inferre in tabulas aliquod commodum. Cic. Obsignare tabulas, Vide OBSIGNO. Signatæ tabulæ. Quint. Tables with ones wil written in them, and senlen vp. Tabula. Cic. A bil of common port sale made by crie to him that wii giue most. Auctionariæ tabulæ, Vide AVGEO.

I. In gen.: si tabulam de naufragio stultus arripuerit, Cic. Off. 3, 23, 89; cf. id. Att. 4, 18, 3; Verg. A. 1, 119: laceras tabulas in litore vidi, Ov. M. 11, 428: tabula navis, Juv. 14, 289; Verg. A. 9, 537: inauratae, Plin. 36, 15, 24, 114: latera (fossarum) cluduntur tabulis, id. 33, 4, 21, 76: perforatae, Col. 7, 4, 5.—Esp., a board to play on, Ov. de Nuce, 77; Sen. Tranq. An. 14, 7; Juv. 1, 90.—

II. In partic.

A. A writing-tablet; also, a tablet written upon, a writing, as a letter, contract, account, list, will, etc. (cf. tabella): tabulae litteris Graecis confectae, Caes. B. G. 1, 29: cerata, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 18: litteraria, a writing-tablet for children, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 10; cf.: laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto, Hor. S. 1, 6, 74; id. Ep. 1, 1, 56: ponatur calculus assint Cum tabula pueri, Juv. 9, 41: tabula calculatoria, Schol. Juv. 7, 73.—

B. Plur., a book of account: pro tabulis, Ubi aera perscribuntur usuraria, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 52; cf.: multum differt, in arcāne positum sit argentum, an in tabulis debeatur, Cic. Top. 3, 16: litterae lituraeque omnes assimulatae, expressae, de tabulis in libros transferuntur, id. Verr. 2, 2, 77, 189: aliquid in tabulas referre, id. Fl. 9, 20: tabulas conficere, id. de Or. 2, 23, 97; id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, 60; id. Rosc. Com. 2, 5: unae tabulae proferantur, in quibus vestigium sit aliquod, quod, etc., id. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2): novae, new account-books (by substituting which for the old ones debts were abolished in whole or in part), id. Phil. 6, 4, 11; id. Att. 5, 21, 13; 14, 21, 4; id. Off. 2, 23, 84; Caes. B. C. 3, 1; 3, 21; cf. Sall. C. 21, 2. —

C. A counter, office where records are kept: suos necessarios conrogat, ut ad tabulam Sextiam sibi adsint horā secundā, Cic. Quint. 6, 25. —

D. Adest ad tabulam: licetur Aebutius (a tablet on which an auction was advertised); hence, an auction, Cic. Caecin. 6, 16; cf.: sin ad tabulam venimus, vincemus facultates Othonis, id. Att. 12, 40, 4. —

E. Of public records, etc.: tabula praerogativae, a list of votes, Cic. Pis. 5, 11; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18; 3, 17, 1; Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 2, 8: qui de tabulis publicis recitat, public records, State papers, Cic. Fl. 17, 40; so, publicae, id. Arch. 4, 8; Liv. 26, 36, 11.—Esp., the censor's lists: tabularum cura, Liv. 4. 8, 4: memoria publica recensionis tabulis publicis impressa, Cic. Mil. 27, 74; Flor. 1, 6, 3; cf.: tabulae aereae, in quibus publicae constitutiones inciduntur, Plin. 34, 9, 21, 99: XII. tabulae, the Twelve Tables, Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 54; so of the tables of the laws: decem tabulas conscripsisse, id. ib. 2, 36, 61: duabus tabulis additis, id. ib. 2, 37, 63; id. de Or. 1, 43, 193; 1, 44, 195 al.; v. duodecim; cf.: nequa tabula ullius decreti Caesaris aut beneficii figeretur, id. Phil. 1, 1, 3: tabula Sullae, the list of proscribed persons, Juv. 2, 28; Mart. 5, 69, 2; Cic. Rosc. Am. 8, 21; 9, 26.—

F. Of any formal or solemn writing: in tabulas multis haec via fecit iter, i. e. a will, testament, Ov. A. A. 2, 332; Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 11; Juv. 2, 58; 4, 19; 12, 123; 14, 55; Mart. 5, 39, 2: Dicaearchi tabulae, maps, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 3: lapideae, Vulg. Exod. 24, 12; id. 2 Cor. 3, 3. —

G. A painted tablet or panel, a painting, picture: tabula picta, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 34; Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 36; Cic. Brut. 75, 261: imago in tabulis, id. Fin. 5, 1, 3; id. de Or. 1, 35, 161; id. Par. 5, 2, 37; Prop. 1, 2, 22; 2, 3, 41; Plin. 35, 9, 36, 64. — Prov.: manum de tabulā, take your hand from the picture! enough! it is finished! sed heus tu, manum de tabulā, Cic. Fam. 7, 25, 1; cf.: dixit (Apelles) ... uno se praestare, quod manum de tabulā sciret tollere, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 80. —

H. A votive-tablet (on which a shipwreck was painted): me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat, etc., Hor. C. 1, 5, 13: largire inopi, ne pictus oberret Caeruleā in tabulā, Pers. 6, 32 (cf.: mersā rate naufragus assem Dum rogat et pictā se tempestate tuetur, Juv. 14, 301). —

K. A bed or plot of ground in a vineyard, Pall. Jan. 11; id. Febr. 10, 1; 9, 9; Auct. Limit. p. 311 Goes.—

L. A fold in a garment, Tert. Pall. 1 and 5.