Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lagena

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. 

LAGE'NA (λάγηνος). A large earthenware vessel, chiefly intended for holding wine, but sometimes used for other purposes, such as keeping fruit, &c. (Hor. Sat. ii. 8. 41. Columell. xii. 45.) It is described as having a full and swelling body, like a gourd, a short neck, and a foot to stand upon. (Apul. Met. ii. p. 31. Columell. x. 383 — 7.) All these particulars are exhibited by the annexed example (Lagena/1.1), from an original of baked clay; which also closely resembles the lagena, on an engraved gem, which the stork in the fable (Phaedr. i. 26.) puts before reynard the fox, in return for his tantalizing her with an invitation to eat out of a patina.

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  Lagena/1.1