sedile

Café-thronged Piazza del Sedile was our favourite place for an afternoon pitstop; I Due Sassi Café does a mean Campari spritz.

Pauperis hic Iri requiesco Lyciscus, herilis, Dum vixi, tutela vigil columenque senect�, Dux c�co fidus; nec, me ducente, solebat, Pr�tenso hinc atque hinc baculo, per iniqua locorum Incertam explorare viam; sed fila secutus, Qu� dubios regerent passus, vestigia tuta Fixit inoffenso gressu; gelidumque sedile In nudo nactus saxo, qua pr�tereuntium Unda frequens confluxit, ibi miserisque tenebras Lamentis, noctemque oculis ploravit obortam.

Sed regina malefica, interim a ferali proposito non recedens, iussit in dolo thalamum more regio pallis sericis et auleis sollempniter adornari, in quo rex �lbertus nocturnum caperet sompnum; iuxta stratum quoque regium sedile preparari fecit, cultu nobilissimo extructum, et cortinis undique redimitum.

Sedes is simply a place for sitting, like ἕδος; whereas sedile and sella are artificially prepared seats; sedile, in any form chosen, as a stool or bench, whether movable or immovable, like ἕδρα; sella, of a particular form, as a chair or throne, like θρόνος.

There is a square-headed Roman doorway and a round-headed Saxon one, in the south wall; also an early English sedile, bordered by Roman tiles on the same side, eastward.