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platea

platea, a broad way, street, avenue

plătēa (plătĕa, Cat. 15, 7; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 71), ae, f., = πλατεῖα.
  • A broad way in a city, a street (class.): quis hic est qui in plateam ingreditur? Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 21 (840): in hac habitasse plateā dictum est Chrysidem, Ter. And. 796; Caes. B. C. 1, 27: purae sunt plateae, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 71.—
  • II An open space in a house, an area, court-yard (post-class.), Lampr. Elag. 24.
plătĕa,
  • the spoonbill, Plin. 10, 40, 56, § 115; v. platalea.

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