quasillum
Ὥσπερ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἡλίου μὴ ὄντος καυστικοῦ, ἀλλ' οὔσης ζωτικῆς καὶ ζωοποιοῦ θέρμης ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπλήκτου, ὁ ἀὴρ παθητικῶς δέχεται τὸ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ ϕῶς καὶ καυστικῶς· οὕτως οὖν ἁρμονίας οὔσης ἐν αὐτοῖς τινὸς καὶ ἑτέρου εἴδους ϕωνῆς ἡμεῖς παθητικῶς ἀκούομεν → Just as although the Sun itself does not cause burning but has a heat in it that is life-giving, life-engendering, and mild, the air receives light from it by being affected and burned, so also although there is a certain harmony and a different kind of voice in them, we hear it by being affected.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
quăsillum: i, n., and quăsillus, i, m.
dim. qualum,
I a small basket for various purposes; esp., a wool-basket (class.), Cato, R. R. 133.—Of wool-baskets: inter quasilla pendebatur aurum, in the spinning-room, Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 10: pressumque quasillo Scortum, who must spin, i. e. low, mean, Tib. 4, 10, 3; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 37.
