Cadus
(
κάδος). A large earthenware vessel, most frequently used,
like the
amphora (q. v.), for holding wine after it had been drawn from
the
dolium (q. v.); and especially imported wine, as the Chian (Athen.
xi. 473b). Other commodities were also stored in
cadi—e. g.
oil, figs, beans, honey, and salt fish. Its shape resembled that of the
amphora (q. v.), except that its lower end was ovoid. The word sometimes denotes a
well-bucket (
γαυλός). Aristophanes twice
(
Aves, 1030, 1053) uses the word
κάδος of the
voting-urn, commonly styled
καδίσκος. See
Cista;
Psephus.