table-couches

Updated: May 13, 2025

Cicero and Pompey one day surprised Lucullus at one of his ordinary banquets, when he expected no guests, and even that cost fifty thousand drachmas, about four thousand dollars; his table-couches were of purple, and his vessels glittered with jewels.

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 : Ancient Achievements

Here too women took the lead: in spite of the zealous invective of Cato they managed to procure the abolition, after the peace with Cartilage , of the decree of the people passed soon after the battle of Cannae , which forbade them to use gold ornaments, variegated dresses, or chariots; no course was left to their zealous antagonist but to impose a high tax on those articles . A multitude of new and for the most part frivolous articles silver plate elegantly figured, table-couches with bronze mounting, Attalic dresses as they were called, and carpets of rich gold brocade now found their way to Rome.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Here too women took the lead: in spite of the zealous invective of Cato they managed to procure the abolition, after the peace with Cartilage , of the decree of the people passed soon after the battle of Cannae , which forbade them to use gold ornaments, variegated dresses, or chariots; no course was left to their zealous antagonist but to impose a high tax on those articles . A multitude of new and for the most part frivolous articles silver plate elegantly figured, table-couches with bronze mounting, Attalic dresses as they were called, and carpets of rich gold brocade now found their way to Rome.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States