proper noun
Graecostăsis
Meaning
- a building in Rome
Graecostăsis, is, f., = Γραικόστασις (Greek station or place),
I. a building in Rome, near the Curia and Comitium, where at first Grecian and afterwards other foreign ambassadors took up their abode, Varr. L. L. 5, § 155 Müll.; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 3; Plin. 7, 60, 60, § 212; 33, 1, 6, § 19 al.; cf. Becker's Antiq. I. p. 284.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Graecostasis is, f
, γραικόστας<>ς, a building in which foreign ambassadors awaited decisions of the senate.