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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of urceolus.

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  • There is the poor gentleman's garret high on the topmost story of some tottering _insula_, close beneath the tiles, where the doves nest: lectus erat Codro Procula minor, urceoli sex ornamentum abaci nec non et parvulus infra cantharus, et recubans sub eodem marmore Chiro iamque vetus graecos servabat cista libellos, et divina opici rodebant carmina mures (iii.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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