Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Qualus

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. 

QUA'LUS and -UM (τάλαρος). A very general name for a wicker basket, which might be employed for various purposes; as, a woman's wool basket (Hor. Od. iii. 12. 4. and next woodcut); a strainer made of wicker work, used at the vintage (Virg. Georg. ii. 242. Serv. ad l. and wood cut s. COLUM. 1.); a wicker cage or coop for fowls (Columell. viii. 3. 4. and woodcut s. CAVEA. 2.). It will be observed that all the baskets in the illustrations referred to possess a conical shape, though sometimes standing upon their base, and at others used in an inverted position, which is the very form described by Columella (ix. 15. 12.), and consequently to be received as the distinguishing characteristic of the qualus.