Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pelliculatus

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. 

PELLICULA'TUS. Covered with skin or leather, especially with reference to a bottle or a jar in which fruits, preserves, and other articles requiring the air to be excluded were kept; as in the annexed example (Pelliculatus/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, in which the edges of the leather cap are seen protruding from underneath the lid, which is tied down by cords passing through the handles. Columell. xii. 46. 5. Ib. 39. 2. and 46. 1.

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