. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. v. 118. TRULLA (rpovAAiov). Diminu-tive of Trua. A small perforated ladle of the same use and characteras the last described. Varro, L. 118. Hero, de Spirit, p. 101. 2. (rpvgXiov). Either used sepa-rately, or with the epithet drinking-cup, or table utensil em-ployed for taking the wine out of a
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. v. 118. TRULLA (rpovAAiov). Diminu-tive of Trua. A small perforated ladle of the same use and characteras the last described. Varro, L. 118. Hero, de Spirit, p. 101. 2. (rpvgXiov). Either used sepa-rately, or with the epithet drinking-cup, or table utensil em-ployed for taking the wine out of alarger recipient, which contained aquantity mixed with snow. It was aspecies of cyathus of an improvedcharacter, being furnished with aninner case perforated as a strainer,and fitting into the hollow bowl ofthe cup, so that when fitted togetherthe two would form but one body,which might be conveniently dippedinto the large vessel, and filled;when, by removing the perforatedcase, any sediment or impurity depo-sited by the snow would be removedwith it from the pure liquid left inthe bowl. (Cic. Verr. ii. 4. , L. L. v. 118. Plin. 7. Scsev. Dig. 34. 2. 37.)The illustration represents an ori-ginal found at Pompeii, with a sectionof the perforated case in its bowl on. the right. The material is bronze ;but the same utensil was also madein common earthenware (Hor. Sat. ii. 3. 144.), as well as porcelain(Plin. /. c.) and pietre dure ( c). 3. The pan of a night-chair (Juv. iii. 107.) ; probably so termed whenconsisting of a double case, con-structed upon the same principle asthe vessel last described. 4. A fire-basket made of iron(Liv. xxxvii. 11.), in which ignitedmatter could be transferred fromplace to place ; and so termed fromthe perforations drilled in its sides tocreate a draught of air, like the ex-ample on the next page, representingan earthenware trulla, discovered in an 694 TRULLEUM. TUBICEN. excavation near Rome, which, when
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