Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Diota

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. 

DIO'TA (δίωτα). A Greek word, meaning literally with two ears; and thence employed both in the Greek and Latin languages, as a general term for any vessel which is furnished with two handles, like the amphora, lagena, &c.; especially such as were intended for the preservation of wine in store (Hor. Od. i. 9. 8.), to which purpose the original depicted in the annexed engraving (Diota/1.1) was applied; for it is carried by a Faun, attending upon Bacchus, on a fictile vase of the Neapolitan Museum.

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