Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sinum

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. 

SI'NUM and -US (δῖνος). A very large, round, and deep bowl for wine (Varro, L. L. v. 123. Id. De Vit. Pop. Rom. ap. Non. p. 547. Plaut. Curc. i. 1. 82.), or milk (Virg. Ecl. vii. 33.); like the annexed example (Sinum/1.1), which represents Ulysses presenting a bowl of wine to Polyphemus, in a bas-relief of the Villa Pamfili. The fabled size of the Sicilian monster is thus appropriately expressed by the great capacity of the vessel containing the potation proffered to him.

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  Sinum/1.1