Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vitreus

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. 

VIT'REUS (ὑάλινος). Made of glass; whence Vitrea absolutely in the plural, glass vessels (Mart. i. 42. Stat. Sylv. i. 6. 74.); in the manufacture of which the ancients were exceedingly skilful, making excellent imitations of precious stones, mixing together a variety of colours, and working the material with an exquisite finish after it had been blown. The Portland vase in the British Museum, which is made of glass, affords an unrivalled specimen of this branch of ancient art.

2. Pila vitrea. See PILA, 3.

3. (ὑαλοειδής). Like glass, transparent; as toga vitrea, a toga made of very fine texture, so that the tunic could be seen through it. Varro ap. Non. s. Vitreum, p. 448.