Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Armillum

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. 

ARMILLUM. A vessel for wine, which Varro (ap. Non. s. v. p. 547.) describes as a kind of urceolus, and Festus (s. v.) enumerates amongst the sacrificial vessels. It must, however, have been in very common use, as may be inferred from the proverb anus ad armillum (Lucil. Sat. p. 60. 10. ed. Gerlach. Apul. Met. ix. p. 197.), which is said of persons when they recur to their accustomed tricks or habits, as "old women to their wine cups."