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The gods were formally invited, and attended; for the statues were brought in rich beds, furnished with soft pillows, called pulvinaria.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various

In this case the Sibylline books were not consulted, but Etruscan haruspices were called in, who simply ordered a supplicatio of the new kind, at the pulvinaria.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde