table
table
subs.
P. and V. τρά̆πεζα, ἡ.
Met., board: P. and V. τρά̆πεζα, ἡ.
The pleasures of the table: P. αἱ περὶ ἐδωδὰς ἡδοναί (Plat. Rep. 389e).
You deign to feed at the same table: V. συντράπεζον ἀξιοῖς ἔχειν βίον (Eur. And. 658).
Tables of the law: Ar. and P. κύρβεις, αἱ or οἱ, P. ἄξονες, οἱ.
Tables on which treaties, etc., were written: Ar. and P. στήλη, ἡ.
List: Ar. and P. κᾰτά̆λογος, ὁ ; see list.
subs.
P. and V. τρά̆πεζα, ἡ.
Met., board: P. and V. τρά̆πεζα, ἡ.
The pleasures of the table: P. αἱ περὶ ἐδωδὰς ἡδοναί (Plat. Rep. 389e).
You deign to feed at the same table: V. συντράπεζον ἀξιοῖς ἔχειν βίον (Eur. And. 658).
Tables of the law: Ar. and P. κύρβεις, αἱ or οἱ, P. ἄξονες, οἱ.
Tables on which treaties, etc., were written: Ar. and P. στήλη, ἡ.
List: Ar. and P. κᾰτά̆λογος, ὁ ; see list.
TABLE
A board on which meals are spread mensa; diminutive mensula (Plaut.): monopodium (a table with a single pillar or leg). To sit at table assidere mensae (according to the modern fashion); accumbere mensae (in the Roman manner): to sit down to table assidere mensae (according to the modern fashion); accumbere mensae (in the Roman fashion): to cover a table *linteum superinjicere mensae (i.e. to lay the cloth): to set food on a table mensam exstruere epulis: to clear the table mensam tollere (according to the Roman custom).
A meal entertainment cena: cenatio: convivium: epulae (Sall.); also mensa (Curt.): at table apud mensam (Plaut.); super mensam (Curt.); super mensas (Hor.); better super cenam (Plin. Ep. Suet.); inter cenam (Cic.); inter epulas (Sall.); super vinum et epulas (Curt.): to purchase fish for table ad cenam pisces emere: to invite to table aliquem invitare vocare ad cenam: to be at anybody’s table cenare apud aliquem (Cic.); cum aliquo (Hor.): to rise from table a mensa surgere (Plaut.); desurgere cena (Hor. Sat.): a good table lautus victus; epulae conquisitissimae: to keep a good table laute lepide cenare: the pleasures of the table delectatio conviviorum; oblectamenta convivialia; voluptates epularum: to enjoy the pleasures of the table delectari conviviis.
Any long or broad board tabula; tessera (small).
For writing on tabula tabella; codicilli pugillares (small tablet memorandum-book).
A written list etc. tabula (e.g. tabulae historicae chronologicae).
A board on which meals are spread mensa; diminutive mensula (Plaut.): monopodium (a table with a single pillar or leg). To sit at table assidere mensae (according to the modern fashion); accumbere mensae (in the Roman manner): to sit down to table assidere mensae (according to the modern fashion); accumbere mensae (in the Roman fashion): to cover a table *linteum superinjicere mensae (i.e. to lay the cloth): to set food on a table mensam exstruere epulis: to clear the table mensam tollere (according to the Roman custom).
A meal entertainment cena: cenatio: convivium: epulae (Sall.); also mensa (Curt.): at table apud mensam (Plaut.); super mensam (Curt.); super mensas (Hor.); better super cenam (Plin. Ep. Suet.); inter cenam (Cic.); inter epulas (Sall.); super vinum et epulas (Curt.): to purchase fish for table ad cenam pisces emere: to invite to table aliquem invitare vocare ad cenam: to be at anybody’s table cenare apud aliquem (Cic.); cum aliquo (Hor.): to rise from table a mensa surgere (Plaut.); desurgere cena (Hor. Sat.): a good table lautus victus; epulae conquisitissimae: to keep a good table laute lepide cenare: the pleasures of the table delectatio conviviorum; oblectamenta convivialia; voluptates epularum: to enjoy the pleasures of the table delectari conviviis.
Any long or broad board tabula; tessera (small).
For writing on tabula tabella; codicilli pugillares (small tablet memorandum-book).
A written list etc. tabula (e.g. tabulae historicae chronologicae).
table:
I. A flat surface:
1. tăbŭla: Cic.: the XII. t.s of law, duodecim t., id.: the two t.s of stone, duae t. lapideae, Vulg. Exod. xxxi. 18. Dimin.: tăbella, Cic.
2. mensa: of a monumental slab, Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66: the flat portion of a catapult, Vitr. 10, 11, 6.
3. aes, aeris, n. (a t. of bronze): v.TABLET .
II. An article of furniture:
1. mensa: a three-footed t., m. tripes, Hor. S. 1, 3, 13: a money t., m., Cic. Pis. 36, 88: a toilette t., m. Delphica, id. Verr. 4, 59, 131: or simply Delphica, Mart. 12, 66, 7 (i. e. a t. made after the pattern of the Delphic tripod): the Lord's t., *m. sancta (Ducange): a t. sacred to the gods, m. deorum, Virg. Aen. 2, 764: a butcher's t., m. lanionia, Suet. Claud. 15: a t. for food, m. escaria, Varr. L. L. 5, 25, 34, fin. N.B.--The Roman usage was to bring in the table with the food set out upon it: hence the foll. expr.: to bring in the t., m. ponere, Ov. M. 11, 119: apponere (with dat.), Pl. Asin. 5, 1, 2: to bring in the second t. (= course), m. secundam apponere, Cic. Att. 14, 21, ad fin. v.COURSE (VIII.): to lay the t., m. exstruere, id. Tusc. 5, 21, 62: to lay the t. carelessly, m. negligentius ponere, Sen. Ira, 2, 25, 1: to put anything on the t., aliquid mensis imponere, Ov. M. 1, 230: in mensis apponere, Pl. Men. 1, 3, 29: mensis, in mensis ponere, Mart. 13, 65; Ov. Fast. 4, 367: to sit down at t. (acc. to the custom of earlier times), considere mensis, Virg. Aen. 7, 176; assidere, Sall. J. 11: to recline at t. (acc. to the custom of later times), mensis, ad mensas accubare, Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; accumbere, id. Verr. 5, 31, 81; cubare, id. de Or. 2, 86, 353; discumbere, id. Att. 5, 1, 4; recumbere, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 1: at t., apud mensam, Pl. Trin. 2, 4, 77; super m., Curt. 7, 4, 7: at the t. of Caesar, ad mensas Caesaris, Juv. 5, 4: to send one anything from the t., mittere aliquid alicui de mensa, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 4: to wait at t., ad m. ministrare, consistere, id. Fin. 2, 21, 69: adstare mensis, Mart. 8, 56, 13: to wipe the t. with a cloth, gausape m. pertergere, Hor. S. 2, 8, 11: to rise from t., a mensa surgere, Pl. Ps. 1, 3, 77; mensas linquere, Catul. 62, 3: to clear away the t., m. tollere, Cic. Pis. 27, 67; auferre, Pl. Am. 2, 2, 185; removere, Ov. M. 13, 676. Dimin.: mensŭla: I wrenched off the leg from a little t., mensulae pedem extorsi, Petr. S. 136, 5: Pl.
2. mŏnŏpŏdium (a t. with one support, introduced from Asia): Liv. 39, 6, ad fin.
3. orbis, is, m. (prop. a round t.-top, as in Ov. Her. 17, 87: hence a round t.): round t.s of citron wood from Libya, Libyci o., Mart. 2, 43, 9.
4. quadra (a square t.): to live at another man's t., aliena vivere q., Juv. 5, 2.
5. trabs, trăbis, f. (a t. of wood); Mart. 14, 91, 2.
6. ăbăcus (a side-t.: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.): he set out several side-t.s with silver plate, a. complures ornavit argento, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61. Phr.; a t. of white marble, lapis albus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.
III. The meal itself, style of living:
1. mensa: a frugal t., m. brevis, Hor. A. P. 198: a modest t., verecunda m., Pers. 5, 44: the t.s (= good cheer) of Syracuse, m. Syracusiae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: the hospitable t. is a sacred thing, m. hospitalis res est sacra, Sen. Ben. 4, 38.
2. victus, ūs (fare, viands): a plain t., mundus v., Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 11: a simple t., tenuis v., Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 89: the pleasures of the t., jucunditas victus, id. ib. 5, 34, 100.
3. expr. very freq. by coena (dinner), convīvium (banquet) ĕpŭlae, pl. (feast), dăpes, pl. (most. poet.: no gen. pl. seems to occur): a sumptuously furnished t., opipare apparatum convivium, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58: lautissima coena, Plin. Ep. 9, 17: a t. so spread with luxuries that you know not what to choose, coena dubia, Hor. S. 2, 2, 77: to keep a bountiful t., liberales epulas struere, Tac. A. 15, 55: an extravagant t., profusae epulae, Cic. Mur. 36, 76: the pleasures of the t., epularum voluptates, id. Sen. 14, 50: conviviorum delectatio, id. ib. 13, 45: at t., inter coenam, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19 (while dinner was going on): super c., Suet. Aug. 77: in convivio, Nep. Att. 14, 1: to be carried away from t., de convivio auferri, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23. Phr.: they called the sitting down of friends to t. a banquet, accubationem epularem amicorum convivium nominarunt, Cic. Sen. 13, 45 (q. v.): a vast company is sitting at t., ingens coena sedet, Juv. 2, 119: to sit at the head, bottom, of the t. (acc. to modern usage), expr. by summo, imo loco: acc. to Roman usage, medius, Virg. Aen. 1, 698: Cic. Rep. 1, 12: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.TRICLINIUM : to make any one roll under the t., aliquem vino deponere, Pl. Aul. 3, 6, 39.
IV. A gaming board: v.BOARD (IV.). Phr.: suddenly the t.s were turned, conversa subito fortuna est, Nep. Att. 10, init.
V. A classified list, or scheme;
1. index, ĭcis, m. (a register for reference): take into your hands a t. of philosophers, sume in manus indicem philosophorum, Sen. Ep 39, 2: (cf. Cic. Att. 4, 4, indices, quos vos Graeci συλλάβους appellatis).
2. stemma, ătis, n. (prop. a garland joining the busts of ancestors, hence a genealogical t.): what profit is there in genealogical t.s? stemmata quid faciunt? Juv. 8, 1: Suet. Ner. 37. [N.B.--Tabula (sing. and pl.) is not classical in the sense of systematised tables, for which modern writers use it, and also *systēma, ătis, n.: e. g. t.s of chronology, history, etc., t. chronologicae, historicae. In passages such as Caes. B. G. 1, 29, reference is made to lists written or engraved on tablets.]: v.LIST , SYNOPSIS .
I. A flat surface:
1. tăbŭla: Cic.: the XII. t.s of law, duodecim t., id.: the two t.s of stone, duae t. lapideae, Vulg. Exod. xxxi. 18. Dimin.: tăbella, Cic.
2. mensa: of a monumental slab, Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66: the flat portion of a catapult, Vitr. 10, 11, 6.
3. aes, aeris, n. (a t. of bronze): v.
II. An article of furniture:
1. mensa: a three-footed t., m. tripes, Hor. S. 1, 3, 13: a money t., m., Cic. Pis. 36, 88: a toilette t., m. Delphica, id. Verr. 4, 59, 131: or simply Delphica, Mart. 12, 66, 7 (i. e. a t. made after the pattern of the Delphic tripod): the Lord's t., *m. sancta (Ducange): a t. sacred to the gods, m. deorum, Virg. Aen. 2, 764: a butcher's t., m. lanionia, Suet. Claud. 15: a t. for food, m. escaria, Varr. L. L. 5, 25, 34, fin. N.B.--The Roman usage was to bring in the table with the food set out upon it: hence the foll. expr.: to bring in the t., m. ponere, Ov. M. 11, 119: apponere (with dat.), Pl. Asin. 5, 1, 2: to bring in the second t. (= course), m. secundam apponere, Cic. Att. 14, 21, ad fin. v.
2. mŏnŏpŏdium (a t. with one support, introduced from Asia): Liv. 39, 6, ad fin.
3. orbis, is, m. (prop. a round t.-top, as in Ov. Her. 17, 87: hence a round t.): round t.s of citron wood from Libya, Libyci o., Mart. 2, 43, 9.
4. quadra (a square t.): to live at another man's t., aliena vivere q., Juv. 5, 2.
5. trabs, trăbis, f. (a t. of wood); Mart. 14, 91, 2.
6. ăbăcus (a side-t.: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.): he set out several side-t.s with silver plate, a. complures ornavit argento, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61. Phr.; a t. of white marble, lapis albus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116.
III. The meal itself, style of living:
1. mensa: a frugal t., m. brevis, Hor. A. P. 198: a modest t., verecunda m., Pers. 5, 44: the t.s (= good cheer) of Syracuse, m. Syracusiae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: the hospitable t. is a sacred thing, m. hospitalis res est sacra, Sen. Ben. 4, 38.
2. victus, ūs (fare, viands): a plain t., mundus v., Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 11: a simple t., tenuis v., Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 89: the pleasures of the t., jucunditas victus, id. ib. 5, 34, 100.
3. expr. very freq. by coena (dinner), convīvium (banquet) ĕpŭlae, pl. (feast), dăpes, pl. (most. poet.: no gen. pl. seems to occur): a sumptuously furnished t., opipare apparatum convivium, Cic. Off. 3, 14, 58: lautissima coena, Plin. Ep. 9, 17: a t. so spread with luxuries that you know not what to choose, coena dubia, Hor. S. 2, 2, 77: to keep a bountiful t., liberales epulas struere, Tac. A. 15, 55: an extravagant t., profusae epulae, Cic. Mur. 36, 76: the pleasures of the t., epularum voluptates, id. Sen. 14, 50: conviviorum delectatio, id. ib. 13, 45: at t., inter coenam, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 6, § 19 (while dinner was going on): super c., Suet. Aug. 77: in convivio, Nep. Att. 14, 1: to be carried away from t., de convivio auferri, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23. Phr.: they called the sitting down of friends to t. a banquet, accubationem epularem amicorum convivium nominarunt, Cic. Sen. 13, 45 (q. v.): a vast company is sitting at t., ingens coena sedet, Juv. 2, 119: to sit at the head, bottom, of the t. (acc. to modern usage), expr. by summo, imo loco: acc. to Roman usage, medius, Virg. Aen. 1, 698: Cic. Rep. 1, 12: v. Dict. Ant. s. v.
IV. A gaming board: v.
V. A classified list, or scheme;
1. index, ĭcis, m. (a register for reference): take into your hands a t. of philosophers, sume in manus indicem philosophorum, Sen. Ep 39, 2: (cf. Cic. Att. 4, 4, indices, quos vos Graeci συλλάβους appellatis).
2. stemma, ătis, n. (prop. a garland joining the busts of ancestors, hence a genealogical t.): what profit is there in genealogical t.s? stemmata quid faciunt? Juv. 8, 1: Suet. Ner. 37. [N.B.--Tabula (sing. and pl.) is not classical in the sense of systematised tables, for which modern writers use it, and also *systēma, ătis, n.: e. g. t.s of chronology, history, etc., t. chronologicae, historicae. In passages such as Caes. B. G. 1, 29, reference is made to lists written or engraved on tablets.]: v.
τράπεζα
τράπεζα, τραπέζης, ἡ, table, money-changer's table, bank
a table for offerings
μικροτράπεζος
keeping a mean, shabby table
ποτηροθήκη
table for setting out cups, sideboard, buffet
ἀντιμίσιον
(mensa) table in a court of justice
ἐλεός
a kitchen-table, a board on which meat was cut up, a dresser
ῥόπτον
operating-table
τράπεζα, τραπέζης, ἡ, table, money-changer's table, bank
appearing fewer than 50 times
θυωρίςa table for offerings
μικροτράπεζος
keeping a mean, shabby table
ποτηροθήκη
table for setting out cups, sideboard, buffet
ἀντιμίσιον
(mensa) table in a court of justice
ἐλεός
a kitchen-table, a board on which meat was cut up, a dresser
ῥόπτον
operating-table
table
Table
- adorned with reliefs: Paus. 8.31.3ff.
- table covered with food set daily before sceptre of Agamemnon: Paus. 9.40.12
- table on which victors' crowns are set at Olympia: Paus. 5.12.5, Paus. 5.20.1-3
- Table of Sun: Paus. 1.33.4, Paus. 6.26.2
- tables in sanctuary of Lycaean Zeus: Paus. 8.30.2