I.a large earthen vessel with a neck and handles, a flask, flagon, bottle: “quasi tu lagenam dicas, ubi vinum solet Chium esse,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 78; Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2; Quint. 6, 3, 10; Hor. S. 2, 8, 41; 81; id. Ep. 2, 2, 134; Juv. 12, 60; 14, 271 et saep.—Also made of other materials, Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 128: “Syra nigri defruti,” of glass, Mart. 4, 46, 9.
lăgēna (also lăgaena , lăgoena , and lăgōna ), ae, f., = λάγηνος,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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