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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scirpicula

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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. 

SCIRPIC'ULA or SIRPIC'ULA. A small portable basket of platted rush (scirpus) employed for a variety of purposes, as for holding flowers (Prop. iv. 2. 40.); vegetables (Lucil. ap. Non.); as a fishing basket. (Plaut. Capt. iv. 2. 37. &c.) The example (Scirpicula/1.1) is from a Pompeian painting, and represents a flower-basket placed on a bench beside the garland makers (coronarii), engraved at p. 208.

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