Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of sedan-chair, for two persons, who sit facing each other: carried on long poles by two mules.
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8 The lettiga is a method of conveyance now generally used in Sicily, only instead of being borne by men, it is suppoited by two mules.
The two last pleadings of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Verres; Kelsall, Charles, tr 1812
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Half an hour's shaking in a _lettiga_ brings us without a stumble, by the old forum of Syracuse, to the Ear of Dionysius, and those other stone quarries so well described in the above passage from Cicero _in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Our alternative would have consisted in two days 'swinging in a _lettiga_, in facing malaria in the fields, with nothing but famine and fever-stricken hamlets to halt at, and even these at long intervals.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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_lettiga_, (the ancient _lectiga_, you will say -- no: here there is nothing for it but an erect spine.)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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