I.a vessel or lid which was placed over food, etc., to be cooked, and then covered with hot coals, usually of earthenware.
I. Lit.: “in foco caldo sub testu coquito leniter,” Cato, R. R. 75: “sub testu,” id. ib. 74; cf.: “et fumant testu pressus uterque suo,” Ov. F. 5, 510: “fimo ovium sub testo calefacto,” Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 114: “unguito focum, ubi coquas, colfacito bene et testum,” Cato, R. R. 76, 2.—Abl. testo, Cato, R. R. 76, 4; 84, 2; Verg. M. 51.— “Afterwards of metal: ranarum corda sub aereo testo discoxere,” Plin. 32, 7, 26, § 81.—