supellex

Gourds smoked inside, and coffee cups of coarse black Harar pottery, with deep wooden platters, and prettily carved spoons of the same material, compose the household supellex.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Cicero calleth sylva and supellex, stuff and variety, to begin with those arts (as if one should learn to weigh, or to measure, or to paint the wind) doth work but this effect, that the wisdom of those arts, which is great and universal, is almost made contemptible, and is degenerate into childish sophistry and ridiculous affectation.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Rogitas? iam principio in aedibus turba istic nulla tibi erit: siquid uti voles, 340 domo abs te adferto, ne operam perdas poscere. his autem apud nos magna turba ac familia est supellex, aurum, vestis, vasa argentea:

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Although gold and furs, silk and jewels, are lavished with the usual cheap magnificence of fiction, very few details are given of the minor _supellex_ or of ways of living generally.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

“Tecum habita et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex;” but it is yet evident enough that Sterne's was one of that numerous order of intellects which are the convivial associates, rather than the fireside companions, of their owners, and which, when deprived of the stimulus of external excitement, are apt to become very dull company indeed.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Lastly, Leland tells us that at Canterbury College in the same University the whole furniture of the library (_tota bibliothecæ supellex_) was transferred from the House of Christ Church,

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

Gourds smoked inside, and coffee cups of coarse black Harar pottery, with deep wooden platters, and prettily carved spoons of the same material, compose the household supellex.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

The domestic _supellex_ consisted of wooden ladles coarsely cut, and of rude pottery, red and yellow, generally without handles, round-shaped and adorned with scratches.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

[A] Tecum habita, noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764