Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fistula

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. 

FIS'TULA (σωλήν). A water pipe. (Cic. Rabir. perd. 11. Frontin. Aq. 25.) These were generally made of lead; but in the Villa of Antoninus Pius at Lanuvium, a portion of one has been discovered, weighing between thirty and forty pounds of pure silver, so that the description of Statius (Sylv. i. 5. 48.), which records a similar extravagance is not a poetic fiction. The example (Fistula/1.1) here given represents part of an original excavated in Rome, where many similar specimens have been found, all of which possess the same peculiarity of form as here observable, being compressed at the top, but circular below.

2. (σύριγξ). A Pan's pipe, made of the stalks of the reed, cane, or hemlock. (Virg. Ecl. ii. 36. Tibull. ii. 5. 31.) See ARUNDO, 6.

3. A writing pen made of reed, or cane. (Pers. iii. 14.) See ARUNDO, 5.

4. (καθετήρ). A metal catheter, distinguished by the ancient surgeons, as well as our own, into two sorts, the male and female. (Celsus, vii. 26. 1.) See CATHETER.

5. An implement employed by the shoemaking trade; perhaps, a shoe-maker's punch. Plin. H. N. xvii. 23.

6. A rolling pin for making pastry. Apic. 42.

7. Fistula farraria, ferraria, or serrata. Supposed to be a machine for grinding corn (Plin. H. N. xviii. 23. Cato, R. R. 10. 3.), but the readings are uncertain; some of the old editions of Cato have fiscella farinaria.

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