The word Cicero uses, lectulus, meant not just a bed for sleeping, but one for conversation and study — perhaps because of its partial homophony with legere, lectus, "gather by picking" (like flowers) and "read." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Vestibulum augue diam, tempor id ornare sit amet, molestie vel lectus. ❋ Maryrobinette (2009)
Nam vel nulla ac orci vestibulum mattis fringilla sit amet lectus. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Et cibus quidem glandes erant, potus aqua, lectus sub divo, &c. 6477. ❋ Unknown (2007)
How her cooks managed to keep on presenting novelties eluded him, but his friends were lost in an ecstasy of edibles that left them little time to watch what the couple on the lectus medius were doing. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
Statio siquidem ac lectus et currus, filtra et vestes, et quicquid talium habent, à nullo tanguntur, sed ab hominibus tanquam immunda respuuntur. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ipse verò super solium longum sedebat et latum sicut lectus, totum deauratum, ad quod ascendebatur tribus gradibus, et vna domina iuxta eum. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ipse ver� super solium longum sedebat et latum sicut lectus, totum deauratum, ad quod ascendebatur tribus gradibus, et vna domina iuxta eum. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Statio siquidem ac lectus et currus, filtra et vestes, et quicquid talium habent, � nullo tanguntur, sed ab hominibus tanquam immunda respuuntur. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“You had better hope that senatorial resistance crumbles quickly,” said the third diner, seated on a chair opposite the lectus medius. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
So as soon as he could he removed himself from the lectus medius, thrust the part-Roman, part-Spanish Marcus Antonius down in his place. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
When she was dead the Pontifex Maximus had the undertakers set up her lectus funebris inside the temple, as she could not be taken home to lie in state. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Julia placed Young Marius on the lectus imus at its foot, the lowest place a man could occupy. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Sulla walked in the rear of the lectus funebris, his black toga pulled up to veil his head; with him walked his nephew, Lucius Nonius, Gaius Marius, Sextus Julius Caesar, Quintus Lutatius Caesar and his two brothers, Lucius Julius Caesar and Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo, all with their heads veiled; and behind the men walked the women, dressed in black but bareheaded, hair in disarray. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Here in the atrium he would remain until eight black-clad bearers picked up the lectus funebris and carried it in the funeral procession. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Num ergo potius _actito_ et _actitavi_ producenda sunt? quoniam frequentativa ferme omnia eodem modo in prima syllaba dicuntur, quo participia praeteriti temporis ex iis verbis unde ea profecta sunt in eadem syllaba pronuntiantur; sicut _lego_, _lectus_, _lectito_ facit; _ungo_, _unctus_, _unctito_; _scribo_, _scriptus_, _scriptito_; ❋ Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
Ubi ego capiam pro machaera turturem, [5] (68) pro galea scaphium, pro insigni sit corolla plectilis, 70 pro hasta talos, pro lorica malacum capiam pallium, ubi mihi pro equo lectus detur, scortum pro scuto accubet? apage a me, apage. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)
Experiri istuc mavellem me quam mi memorarier. prius abis quam lectus ubi cubuisti concaluit locus. heri venisti media nocte, nunc abis. hocin placet? ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)
Quid est? quid metuis? ne tibi lectus malitiam apud me suadeat? ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)
