Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pterotus

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. 

PTERO'TUS (πτερωτός). Properly a Greek word, meaning winged, but employed as a characteristic epithet, for the drinking-cup, termed calix, because it was furnished with handles on each side, like wings, as exhibited by the illustration (Pterotus/1.1) representing an original calix of Greek manufacture. Plin. H. N. xxxv. 66.

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