STIBADIUM, among the Romans, a low kind of table-couch or bed of a circular form, which succeeded to the triclinia, and was of different sizes, according to the number of guests they were designed for. They were called hexaclina, octaclina, or enneaclina, according as they held six, eight, or nine guests, and so of any other number.
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