Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Uter

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. 

U'TER (ἀσκός). A large bag made of goat-skin, pig-skin, or ox-hide, sewed up at one side, and having the sutures carefully stopped with a coating of pitch, so as to adapt it for containing liquids, or to be inflated with air. Plin. H. N. xxviii. 73. Ov. Am. iii. 12. 29. Caes. B. C. i. 48.

2. Uter vini. A wine-skin (Plaut. Truc. v. 11.); mostly employed for transporting wine in body from place to place, but in very early times the wine was actually brought into the dining-room in a skin (Varro ap. Non. s. Cupa, p. 544.), and the cups filled out of it, in the manner shown by the annexed illustration (Uter/2.1), from a painting at Pompeii, which represents a female pouring wine out of a skin into a cantharus held by Silenus.

3. Uter unctus. A goat-skin, greased on the outside and inflated with air, which the rural population of Attica used to dance or jump upon, for a rustic sport, on the second day of the festival of Bacchus, termed Ascolia (Ἀσκώλια), as represented by the annexed illustration (Uter/3.1) from an engraved gem. Virg. Georg. ii. 384.

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