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|lshtext=<b>phăsēlus</b>: (phăsell- and făs-), i, m. and f., = [[φάσηλος]]>.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[kind]] of [[bean]] [[with]] an [[edible]] [[pod]], French beans, kidney-beans, phasel ([[phaseolus]] [[vulgaris]] of Linn.): viciamque seres vilemque phaselum, Verg. G. 1, 227: longa fasellus, Col. 10, 377; v. id. 2, 10, 4; Pall. 10, 12.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[light]] [[vessel]] (in the [[shape]] of a kidney-[[bean]]) made of [[wicker]]-[[work]] or [[papyrus]], [[sometimes]] also of burned and [[painted]] [[clay]] (cf.: [[celox]], [[lembus]]): epistulam de phaselo [[dare]], Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1: [[phaselus]] [[ille]] quem videtis, Cat. 4, 1: phaselon solvere, Hor. C. 3, 2, 29: [[dare]] [[vela]] fictilibus phaselis, Juv. 15, 127: pictam phaselon, Mart. 10, 30, 13.
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