Accubita

Of Ancient Roman furniture, accubita was the name of couches used in the time of the Roman emperors, instead of the triclinium, for reclining upon at meals.

The mattresses and feather-beds were softer and higher, and the supports (fulcra) of them lower in proportion, than in the triclinium. The clothes and pillows spread over them were called accubitalia.^[1]

See also

• Triclinium
• Stibadium

Notes

1. ^ Aelius Lampridius, Augustan History, "Antoninus Heliogabalus" (Pars II), 19, 25; Schol. ad Juv. Sat. v.17

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1870).