Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trulleum

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. 

TRULL'EUM or TRULL'IUM. A slop-pail; used by the ancients to receive the dirty water in places where several persons washed their hands at the same time. The object is repeatedly mentioned by Cato, and always in conjunction with other vessels employed in washing, such as hand and foot-basins, &c.; and doubtless resembled in constructive principle the pails commonly used in our dressing-rooms, which have a perforated plate at the top, through which the dirty water is poured without splashing, while it serves, at the same time, to conceal the unsightly appearance of the contents from the person using it. Varro, L. L. v. 118. Id. de Vit. P. R. ap. Non. s. v. p. 547. Cato, R. R. x. 2. xi. 2.