Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ciborium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CIBO'RIUM (κιβώριον). Literally, the seed-pod of the Egyptian bean (colocasia); and thence a drinking vessel of Greek invention, so termed from its resemblance to the form of that fruit. Hor. Od. ii. 7. 22. Schol. Vet. ad l. Athen. xi. 54.