Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vesica

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. 

VESI'CA (κύστις). A bladder (Ov. Met. v. 304.); employed for a purse (Varro, R. R. iii. 17. 2. MARSUPIUM; for a lantern (Mart. xiv. 62. LATERNA); and as a cap (Mart. viii. 33.), with which the ancient women used to cover the whole head, for the purpose of confining the hair, and keeping it clean and compact when not regularly dressed, of which the annexed wood-cut (Vesica/1.1) affords an example, from a fictile vase.

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  Vesica/1.1