στρῶμα, ατος, τό,
(στρώννυμι) anything spread or laid out for lying or sitting upon, mattress, bed, ἀσπάλαθοι δὲ τάπησιν ὁμοῖον στρῶμα θανόντι [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1193, compare “PEleph.” 5.5 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]; used on the funeral bier, [[ “IG” 12(5).593.3 (Ceos, 5th c.BC), “Schwyzer” 323 C 29 (Delph., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, bedclothes, coverings of a dinner-couch, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1090, “Nu.” 37, 1069, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a bird's nest, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 616a2; σ. πορφυρόβαπτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 208] Refs 5th c.BC+]; coupled with ἱμάτια, ἔπιπλα, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 32.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴρεσθαι τὰ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 596 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ὑποσπᾶν to pull the bed from under one, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.197: compare στρωματεύς 1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 horsecloth, horse-trappings, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.19, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 109, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.183 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; trappings of an ass, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 38. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II pavement, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.313.71, 22.1666 B 37, 7.4255.6 (Oropus, 4th c.BC), “Inscription Délos” 502 A 24 (3rd c.BC), “IG” 12(8).380 (from Thasos), etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]