culleum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →culleus, cullei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Science
leather sack (wine/liquid); liquid measure (20 amphorae/120 gallons);; leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned; this punishment;
acc. sg.gen. pl. - Entry →culleum, cullei:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Science
leather sack (wine/liquid); liquid measure (20 amphorae/120 gallons);; leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned; this punishment;
acc. sg.gen. pl.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...dixit relegandum, quo patri videretur. 7. Non culleum, non serpentes, non carcerem decrevit memor, non de quo censeret..."II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...fecerit homo senex, qui parricidam filium sciat. non culleum parat, non illud porrigit venenum, non saltem abdicatione dimittit..."