Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Guttus

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. 

GUTTUS. A jug with a very narrow neck and small mouth, from which the liquid poured out flowed in small quantities, or drop by drop (Varro, L. L. v. 124.), as the name implies. Vessels of this kind were used at the sacrifice for pouring wine into the patera to make a libation (Plin. H. N. xvi. 73.); in early times, or by persons of moderate means, as a wine jug at the table, before the Greek epichysis was substituted in its place (Hor. Sat. i. 6. 118. Varro, l. c.); in the baths for dropping oil on the strigil with which the bather was scraped, in order to lubricate the edge, and prevent it from wounding the skin (Juv. Sat. iii. 263.); and also as an oil-cruet, in general. (Aul. Gell. xvii. 8.) The example (Guttus/1.1) represents a sacrificial guttus from a Pompeian painting.

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