pulvinaria

In the ceremonies I have just been describing almost all the features are foreign, -- the _pulvinaria_, the haruspices, perhaps even the _Iovis epulum_; and we feel that though the _religio_ in the minds of the people is doubtless a genuine thing, yet the means taken to soothe it are far from genuine, -- they are _mala medicamenta_, quack remedies.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

It may be that they had tried it even in earlier times; but anyhow, in the fourth and third centuries B.C. advantage was taken of the _pulvinaria_ to use them as stopping-places in the procession of a _supplicatio_, and the phrase becomes a common one in the annals, "supplicatio ad omnia pulvinaria indicta."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The ‘pulvinaria’ were the cushions, or couches, placed in the temples of the Gods, for the use of the Divinities; which probably their priests (like their brethren who administered to Bel) did not omit to enjoy.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

Magnitudo itigens; longitudo ab apice oris ad anum 6 polli 'ces e. xcedeus; color cx. flavcfeutc grifeus, hinc inde fuf eefcente maculatus; verrucae majores et minores, medio punSIo elevato badio; - pulvinaria ovata lacvia, poris per, tufa; anus radiis rugojii cinBus; plantarum digiti primo tantum articvLo membrana coniiexi, ultimo articulo mem*. brana badia fimbriato, brafilicn - 19.

Caroli a Linné. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis 1788

The vow that followed, of which Livy gives a modernised wording, was for _ludi_ to last ten continuous days, and for gifts of money at all the _pulvinaria_, where now, as we gather from these same chapters, the images of the gods were displayed on their couches during the greater part of the year. [

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884