Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Epistomium

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. 

EPISTOM'IUM (ἐπιστόμιον). The cock of a water pipe, or of any vessel containing liquids to be drawn off in small quantities when required. (Vitruv. ix. 8. 11.) The illustration (Epistomium/1.1) represents an original bronze water cock found at Pompeii, similar in constructive principle to those now in use, but of a more tasteful design. Seneca says (Ep. 86.) that in his day the baths of Rome, even for the common people, were furnished with silver cocks.

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  Epistomium/1.1