Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cymbium

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. 

CYM'BIUM (κυμβίον). A drinking bowl, with two handles (Apul. Met. xi. p. 239.), so called from a certain resemblance in its outline to the bark termed cymba (Festus, s. v. Macrob. Saturn. v. 21.), as is exemplified by the annexed example (Cymbium/1.1), from a bronze original found at Pompeii. It was sometimes employed for containing milk (Virg. Aen. iii. 66.), and was also made of the precious metals (Virg. Aen. v. 267.), as well as of earthenware. Mart. Ep. viii. 6.

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