cista

Cistam posuit ex Medicorum consilio prope eum, in quem alium se mortuum fingentem pacuit; hic in cista jacens, &c. 3467.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

The wooden _tabellae_, placed in the _cista_ or wicker box, were marked U.R. (_uti rogas_) and A. (_antiquo_) in the case of a proposed law; L. (_libero_) and D. (_damno_) in the case of a public trial; in the case of an election, _puncta_ were made opposite the names or initials of the candidates.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

_ The mysterious object is probably the mystic casket (_cista_) containing the [Greek: phallos], emblem of fertility.

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

In quadam cista juxta analogium de latere refectorii (9 vols.).

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

This boat, like the mystic egg of Erôs or the cista of Dionysos, symbolised the embryo of cosmic life.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Sardian coins give Zeus with the thunderbolt, or Phoebus with the lyre; those of Smyrna are stamped with a standing ox, a ram, and the caduceus, a female panther and the thyrsus, or a hero reclining beneath a plane-tree; those of Tarsus with the Dionysian cista, the

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

This boat, like the mystic egg of Erôs or the cista of Dionysos, symbolised the embryo of cosmic life.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

Sardian coins give Zeus with the thunderbolt, or Phoebus with the lyre; those of Smyrna are stamped with a standing ox, a ram, and the caduceus, a female panther and the thyrsus, or a hero reclining beneath a plane-tree; those of Tarsus with the Dionysian cista, the

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Bishop Hall, and Purchas in his 'Pilgrims,' have _chist_ for _chest_, and it is certainly nearer _cista_, as well as to its form in the

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

_cist-vaen_, means a stone-chamber, from _cista_, a chest, and _vaen_, the modified form of _maen_ or _mên_, stone.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861