pedestal; base, point of attachment; foundation, support
Latin word, found 15 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.154: … r, prope modum non minus multas statuas istum posuisse Syracusis quam abstulisse; huic etiam Romae videmus in basi statuarum maximis litteris incisum, a commvni Siciliae datas.
All forms of basis