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- noun archaeology A kind of
mortar used by ancient Romans forgrinding .
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Examples
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Finds have included large pieces of a mortarium, a graceful dish used for food preparation, and cattle skeletons, the remains of several meat feasts.
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Finds have included large pieces of a mortarium, a graceful dish used for food preparation, and cattle skeletons, the remains of several meat feasts.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre.
Walden 2004
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The heavily damaged eastern arcade of courtyard XXV with the limestone mortarium on the left and the trough for animal fodder under the right arcade.
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It still carried a tall limestone mortarium (a vessel for crushing).
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Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre.
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Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre.
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Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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Sto per mortarium plumbcum piftillo plum - beo, donec mellishabcat craffitudincm.
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ... Marco Gatinaria 1554
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Mark my words, if that fire stays alive, I’ll extinguish you instantly. tum aquam aufugisse dicito, si quis petet. cultrum, securim, pistillum, mortarium, quae utenda vasa semper vicini rogant, fures venisse atque abstulisse dicito profecto in aedis meas me absente neminem volo intro mitti. atque etiam hoc praedico tibi si Bona Fortuna veniat, ne intro miseris 100
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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