Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pittacium

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. 

PITTAC'IUM (πιττάκιον). A slip or bit of paper, parchment, or leather for writing on; especially as a label for a wine bottle, on which the date of the vintage, quality of the wine, and time of bottling, was inscribed. Pet. Sat. 34. 6. Ib. 56. 7.

2. A piece of linen spread with ointment to form a plaster. Laber. ap. Gell. xvi. 7. Celsus, iii. 10.