feretrum: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>fĕrē&#774;trum</b>: i, n., = [[φέρετρον]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[litter]], [[bier]], etc., for [[carrying]] trophies in a [[triumphal]] [[procession]], the bodies of the [[dead]], [[their]] [[effigies]], etc.; [[pure]] Lat. [[ferculum]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): [[quis]] opima volenti Dona Jovi portet ferĕtro suspensa [[cruento]], Sil. 5, 168; 17, 630: jamque rogum quassasque faces ferĕtrumque parabant, [[bier]], Ov. M. 3, 508; so id. ib. 14, 747 (ferētro); Verg. A. 6, 222 (ferētro); 11, 64 (ferētrum); Val. Fl. 5, 11; Sil. 10, 567; Grat. Cyneg. 488; Inscr. Orell. 4370 al.; cf.: ubi [[lectus]] mortui fertur, dicebant [[feretrum]] nostri, [[Graeci]] [[φέρετρον]], Varr. L. L. 5, § 166 Müll.