Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pyxis

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. 

PYX'IS (πυξίς). Literally, a small box or case made of boxwood, but formed in a particular manner; viz. with a lid having a lip or return which shuts over the edge of the box, like the mouth of a tortoise (Plin. H. N. ix. 12.), as is very plainly expressed in the annexed woodcut (Pyxis/1.1) from the design on a fictile vase. But as boxes of this character were made of various other materials besides boxwood, and extensively used for holding any small articles of use or ornament, especially such as are characteristic of female habits, the word possesses in general a signification analogous to our jewel case, trinket box, and such other receptacles as receive their characteristic name from the nature of the objects contained in them. Pet. Sat. 110. Mart. ix. 38 Suet. Nero 12. Cic. Cael. 25.

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