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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lura

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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. 

LURA. Properly the mouth of the large leathern sack or skin, called culeus, in which wine and oil were transported from place to place, as exhibited in the annexed cut (Lura/1.1) from a Pompeian painting; or of a common wine skin (UTER, and the illustration there given); whence it was also used to signify the skin itself, or a leathern bag. Festus s. v. Auson. Perioch. Od. 10.

  • Lura/1.1
    Lura/1.1

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