mortarium: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>mortārĭum</b>: ii, n.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[mortar]] ([[mostly]] [[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[post]]-Aug.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[mortarium]], in quo teruntur quae solvenda sunt, Non. 543, 22; Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 17; [[Cato]], R. R. 74: aerea, Plin. 33, 8, 41, § 123: plumbea, id. 34, 18, 50, § 168.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[large]] [[basin]] or [[trough]] in [[which]] [[mortar]] is made, Vitr. 7, 3, 10; 8, 6, 14; Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 177.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mortar: mortario [[caementum]] addatur, Vitr. 8, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[hollow]] resembling a [[mortar]], dug [[round]] a [[tree]]: arbori [[mortarium]] [[statim]] faciunt, Pall. 4, 8, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> That [[which]] is triturated in a [[mortar]], a [[drug]]: et quae jam veteres sanant mortaria caecos, Juv. 7, 170.