History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)

by H. B. Walters; Samuel Birch

[3320]. Varro, L.L. v. 122; Virg. Aen. i. 729.

[3321]. See Isid. Etym. xx. 5, who suggests a derivation from patere, “quod patentes sunt dispansisque labris.”

[3322]. Ov. Fast. ii. 634; Juv. v. 85: cf. Plaut. Cist. ii. 1, 46.

[3323]. Paul, ex Fest. p. 247, Müll.; Varro, 544, 19 (ap. Non.).

[3324]. Paul, ex Fest. p. 160.

[3325]. Digest, xxxiv. 2, 19, § 12.

[3326]. Varro ap. Non. 547, 14.

[3327]. H.N. vii. 185; Petron. 42; Colum. xii. 43, 7; Pallad. Agric. vii. 7; Cels. 2, 11.

[3328]. V. 148: see also Tert. Apol. 13; Varro ap. Non. 146, 8; 545, 2.

[3329]. Cato, R.R. 57; Livy, xxv. 2, 8; Pliny, H.N. xiv. 85, 144. For a bronze congius representing the standard measure see Hultsch, Metrologie, p. 123; also Daremberg and Saglio, s.v. On Roman metrology generally see Krause, Angeiol. p. 454, and Hultsch, op. cit. p. 112 ff.