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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ellychnium

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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. 

ELLYCH'NIUM (ἐλλύχνιον, θρυαλλίς). The wick of a candle or oil-lamp; usually made with the pith of a rush, or the coarse fibres of flax, or of papyrus. (Vitruv. viii. 1. 5. Plin. H. N. xxiii. 41. Id. xxviii. 47.) The illustration (Ellychnium/1.1) represents a small Roman lamp, with the wick burning.

  • Ellychnium/1.1
    Ellychnium/1.1

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