Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hydria

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. 

HY'DRIA (ὑδρία). A water pail, or water can for holding clean water; more especially used to designate such as were of a superior description (Cic. Verr. iii. 19.), of bronze or silver, and of costly workmanship, like the annexed example (Hydria/1.1), from a Pompeian original.

2. In a more general sense, any kind of vessel for holding water; whence also used for the urn filled with water from which the names of the tribes or centuries were drawn out by lot, for the purpose of assigning to each one its right turn in voting; otherwise, and more specially, termed SITELLA. Cic. Verr. iii. 51.

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  Hydria/1.1