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urna ae, f

1 VAS-, a vessel of baked clay, vessel for drawing water, water-pot, water-jar, urn : fictilis, O.: stetit urna Sicca, H.: Caelata (of a river-god), V.A voting-urn, ballot-box : senatorum: leges minitatur et urnam, H.An urn for lots, vessel for drawing lots : educit ex urnā trīs (iudices): stat ductis sortibus urna, V.: omnium Versatur urna, H.: Omne capax movet urna nomen, Cs.: nomina in urnam coicere, L.A vessel for the ashes of the dead, cinerary urn : Quodque rogis superest unā requiescit in urnā, O.A money-pot, money-jar : argenti, H.—As a liquid measure, an urna, half an amphora (about two and a half gallons): urnae crater capax, Iu.

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