tabella ae, f dim. tabula, a small board: ternis instructa lapillis, i. e. gaming-board, O.: Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit, frail plank (i. e. bark), O.: liminis, the door-sill, Ct.

—A fan: quos (ventos) faciet nostrā mota tabella manu, O.

—A little picture, small painting: ea (exedria) tabellis ornare: priscis sparsa tabellis Porticus, O.

—A waxed tablet for writing, writing-tablet: tabellae Imponere manūs, O.: abiegnae, O.

—In the comitia, a ballot, polling-ticket, vote: cerata tabella cerā legitimā, i. e. with wax of uniform color (to protect secrecy): tabellā consulem declarare, i. e. by ballot: tabella modo detur nobis, sicut populo data est.

—In a court of justice, a judge's ballot, juror's tablet, vote (inscribed with letters indicating his judgment or verdict, as C for condemno; A for absolvo; NL for non liquet): iudicialis: ternas tabellas dari ad iudicandum iis, etc., Cs.

—A votive tablet, memorial tablet: votiva, H.: memores, O.

—Plur, a writing, written composition, letter, epistle: tabellae laureatae, a despatch reporting a victory, L.: Cur totiens video mitti recipique tabellas? O.: tabellas proferri iussimus.

—A document, contract, deed, record: Heracliensium publicae, public records: tabellae quaestionis, minutes of the examination: falsae forged wills, Iu.: tabellis obsignatis agis mecum, i. e. you hold me strictly to what I have said.