Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Patina

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. 

PAT'INA (λεκάνη). A bowl or basin, somewhat shallower than the olla, but deeper than the patera, as will be understood by comparing the examples introduced under those two words with the annexed specimen (Patina/1.1), from an original discovered in a tomb at Paestum. It was generally made of earthenware, but sometimes, though rarely, of metal; frequently had a lid (operculum) to cover it; and was used for a great many purposes, more especially in culinary and pharmaceutical operations, as well as for bringing to table ragouts, stews, and such eatables as were served with gravy, for which the form described would be particularly appropriate. Plaut. Pseud. iii. 2. 51. Plin. H. N. xxiii. 33. Phaedr. xxvi. 3. Hor. Sat. ii. 8. 43.

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  Patina/1.1