sella | sedda (noun F) : (ancient collat. form , acc. to Scaur. p. 2252 P.), , dim. for sedla; root sed-; .sedes
* A seat, settle, chair, stool (syn.: sedile, scamnum): viden' ut expalluit! datin' isti sellam, ubi assidat cito,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 32; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 28; id. Poen. 1, 2, 56: scabilla, sellas, solia,Cato, R. R. 10, 4; 157, 11: in sellā sedere,Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104 (corresp. to sedes): fracta est patris sella,Petr. 136: altā deducere sellā,Juv. 3, 136 al.
* Esp.
* Of a mechanic's work-stool: ipsum sellae atque operis et quaestus cottidiani locum,Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 17: in foro sellam ponere,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 25, § 56.
* Of a saddle, Cod. Th. 8, 5, 47; Cod. Just. 12, 51, 12; Veg. 6, 6, 2; Vulg. Esth. 6, 8.
* Esp., a magistrate's seat or chair (very freq.), Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85; id. Div. 1, 52, 119; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; 2, 1, 47, § 124; 2, 2, 38, § 94; Caes. B. C. 3, 20; Liv. 3, 11; 6, 15; Hor. S. 1, 6, 97 et saep.; also called sella curulis; v. curulis.—Prov.: duabus sellis sedere, to sit on two stools, i. e. to keep in with both parties, Laber. ap. Sen. Contr. 3, 18 fin.; id. ap. Macr. S. 2, 3.
* Of a seat in a coach or wagon, Phaedr. 3, 6, 5.
* Of a close-stool, Scrib. Comp. 193; 227; also called sella familiarica,Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 4.