Pl. -a (-ums). [L. suggestum, f. suggest-, suggerĕre to SUGGEST.] A platform, stage, tribune.
1705. Addison, Italy, 127. The ancient Suggestums, as I have often observ’d on Medals, as well as on Constantine’s Arch, were made of Wood, like a little kind of Stage.
1772. Graves, Spir. Quix. (1783), III. 91. Wildgoose … took the opportunity of mounting the suggestum (or horse-block) once more.
1859. J. C. Hobhouse, Italy, II. 112. Not far from the base of the still remaining suggestum, by the Arch of Severus.
