Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Discus

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. 

DIS'CUS (δίσκος). A circular plate of stone or metal, about a foot in diameter, employed, like our quoit, for throwing to a distance as an exercise of strength and skill. (Hor. Od. i. 8. 11. Prop. iii. 14. 10.) The instrument itself, and the manner of projecting it, are shown and explained by the wood-cut on the opposite page, and the text which accompanies it.

2. Any shallow circular vessel for containing eatables; the original of our word dish. Apul. Met. ii. p. 36.

3. A flat circular sundial, placed horizontally upon its stand. (Vitruv. ix. 8.) The example (Discus/3.1) is from an original published by Martini, von den Sonnenuhren der Alten.

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