Citations:œnophorum

English citations of œnophorum

Noun: vessel for carrying wine

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• 1837 C.E., Arthur Brooke Faulkner, Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Brougham and Vaux, John Macrone; page #179:

  At Terracina, we replenished our œnophorum with delicious wine and divers munitions against the necessities of the road, and arrived about one, at Treponti.

• 1858 C.E., Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, John Murray; Volume II, Part IV, Chapter III, page #318:

  Another vase for holding wine, probably the same as the œnophorum, was the acratophorum.