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pyxis (noun F) = πυξίς.: (puxis, Juv. 13, 25; Scrib. Comp. 228)
* Lit., a box, a small box, esp. for unguents, medicines, etc. — Orig., of boxes made of boxwood, then of those of any kind of wood, and finally, also, of metallic boxes: veneni,Cic. Cael. 25, 61: aurea,Suet. Ner. 47; cf. id. ib. 12: cornea,Plin. 21, 20, 81, § 137: plumbea,id. 32, 10, 47, § 135.—Belonging to the toilet of women, Petr. 110; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 83 (al. buxides).
* Transf.: ferrea,an iron cap fitted to the lower end of a pestle,Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112.
* Lit., a box, a small box, esp. for unguents, medicines, etc. — Orig., of boxes made of boxwood, then of those of any kind of wood, and finally, also, of metallic boxes: veneni,Cic. Cael. 25, 61: aurea,Suet. Ner. 47; cf. id. ib. 12: cornea,Plin. 21, 20, 81, § 137: plumbea,id. 32, 10, 47, § 135.—Belonging to the toilet of women, Petr. 110; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 83 (al. buxides).
* Transf.: ferrea,an iron cap fitted to the lower end of a pestle,Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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