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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Artopticius

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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

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ARTOPTIC'IUS, sc. panis. A roll, cake, or small loaf of bread baked in a mould. (Plin. H. N. xviii. 27.) The example (Artopticius/1.1) is from an original, which was discovered with several others in a baker's shop at Pompeii, hardened but uninjured by the lapse of so many centuries.

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