sandăpĭla

I. a common kind of bier for people of the lower classes (persons of rank were borne on a lectica), Suet. Dom. 17 fin.; Mart. 8, 75, 14; 2, 81, 2; 9, 3, 12; Juv. 8, 175; Suet. Dom. 17; cf. Fulg. Expos. Serm. Ant. p. 558.