Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pollubrum

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. 

POLLU'BRUM and POLU'BRUM. An old name for the basin employed in ablution of the hands and feet before and after meals. It was held by a slave in his left hand underneath the feet or hands extended over it, to catch the water poured down upon them from a jug in the right. At a subsequent period a vessel termed trulleum was invented for the same object. Non. s. v. p. 544. Liv. Andron. and Fabius Pictor, l. c.