Suggestus
Suggestus, SUGGESTUM mean in general any elevated place made of materials heaped up (sub and gero), and is specially applied: 1. To the stage or pulpit from which the orators addressed the people in the Comitia. [ROSTRA] 2. To the elevation fiom which a general addressed the soldiers (Tac. Hist. 1.35; Caes. Gal. 6.3). 3. To the elevated seat from which the emperor beheld the public games (Suet. Jul. 76; Plin. Paneg. 51), also called cubiculum. [CUBICULUM]
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