cortina: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>cortīna</b>: ae, f.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[round]] [[vessel]], a [[kettle]], [[caldron]] (for [[cooking]], liquids, etc.), [[Cato]], R. R. 66, 1; Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22 al.; 36, 26, 65, § 191; Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., the [[tripod]] of [[Apollo]], in the form of a [[caldron]], Verg. A. 3, 92; 6, 347; Ov. M. 15, 635.—Hence, also, a [[tripod]] as a [[sacred]] [[offering]], Suet. Aug. 52.—<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., of [[any]] [[thing]] [[caldron]]-shaped, an [[arch]], a [[circle]] ([[very]] [[rare]]); the cault of [[heaven]], Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 48 Müll. N. cr. (Ann. v. 9 Vahl.); the [[circle]] of a [[theatre]], Auct. Aetn. 295; and prob. also a [[circle]] of hearers, Tac. Or. 19 dub. (v. Andresen in h. l.).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A curtain: [[decem]] cortinae de bysso retortā, Vulg. Exod. 26, 1.