Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Orca

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. 

ORCA (ὄρκη or ὕρχα). An earthenware vessel of considerable size, but smaller than the amphora, employed for holding pickled fish (Hor. Sat. ii. 4. 66. Arist. Vesp. 676), dried figs (Columell. xii. 15. 2. Plin. H. N. xv. 21.), oil and wine (Varro, R. R. i. 13. 6.). It is described as having a full body, sharp pointed bottom, small mouth, and long narrow neck (Bartolom. Font. Comment. in Pers. iii. 48.), precisely as exhibited by the annexed figure (Orca/1.1), which represents one of the numerous earthenware vessels discovered in the wine cellar of which a description and representation is inserted p. 141.{TR: "142" -> "141"} s. CELLA, 2. The form of the vessel is also equally well adapted for the purpose ascribed to by Persius (l. c.); whether his words are taken to mean a dice box with a long narrow neck  — angustae collo non fallier orcae,  — or to describe a game played by the Roman children, in which a vessel of this kind was stuck upright in the ground, for boys standing at a certain distance to pitch nuts into its mouth.

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