quasillum
From LSJ
ἀκίνδυνοι δ' ἀρεταὶ οὔτε παρ' ἀνδράσιν οὔτ' ἐν ναυσὶ κοίλαις τίμιαι → but excellence without danger is honored neither among men nor in hollow ships
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.
