were delivered; so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators
A portable platform usually in the form of a collapsible hinged framework (gate rostrum) with a separate top Used to raise specific parts of the action or scene
A rostrum is a raised platform on which someone stands when they are speaking to an audience, receiving a prize, or conducting an orchestra. As he stood on the winner's rostrum, he sang the words of the national anthem. a small platform that you stand on when you are making a speech or conducting musicians = podium (from rodere; RODENT)