Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Capula

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

CAP'ULA. Diminutive of CAPIS; a small wine jug or drinking cup, with a handle to it, which was used with the circular drinking table termed cilibantum. (Varro, L. L. v. 121. Id. de Vit. Pop. Rom. ap. Non. s. Armillum, p. 547.) Vessels of this form and character are frequently represented upon round tables at which parties are drinking, in the paintings of Pompeii, from one of which the annexed illustration (Capula/1.1) is taken.

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  Capula/1.1