Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vagina

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. 

VAGI'NA (ξιφοθήκη, κολεός). The scabbard of a sword (Cic. Virg. Hor. Ov.); usually made of different kinds of wood, box, elm, oak, ash, &c., and sometimes, perhaps, of leather, as the Greek name κολεός (Latin culeus) seems to imply. The illustration (Vagina/1.1) exhibits an original sword found at Pompeii, in its scabbard, which consists of a wooden case, covered with a thin plate of metal, studded with knobs of bronze.

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  Vagina/1.1