Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pelluvia

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. 

PELLU'VIA or -UM (ποδανιπτήρ). A foot-pan, or basin for washing the feet in, as opposed to malluvium, a basin for washing the hands. (Festus, s. v.) The illustration (Pelluvia/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, represents Cupid preparing a foot-bath for Adonis, who, in the original composition, is sitting in front of the vessel; and a bas-relief in Winkelmann (Mon. Ined. No. 161.) exhibits the old nurse washing the feet of Ulysses in a vessel of similar form and character.

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