table-cloth
TABLE-CLOTH
linteum in mensa ponendum or positum (linen; Vid: Apul. Apol. 308 19): gausape or gausapes (woollen wove on one side) or *mensae linteum only. To lay the table-cloth mensam linteo sternere (after triclinium sternere Martial); *linteum superinjicere mensae.
linteum in mensa ponendum or positum (linen; Vid: Apul. Apol. 308 19): gausape or gausapes (woollen wove on one side) or *mensae linteum only. To lay the table-cloth mensam linteo sternere (after triclinium sternere Martial); *linteum superinjicere mensae.
table-cloth: mantēle, is, n. (mantīle): Isid. Orig. 19, 26. It was originally a towel or napkin, cf. Virg. G. 4, 377. To lay the t., mensam manteli operire, after Isid. l. c.: sternere, after Trebell. Gall. 16, 3.