I. Lit., a box, a small box, esp. for unguents, medicines, etc. — “Orig., of boxes made of boxwood, then of those of any kind of wood, and finally, also, of metallic boxes: veneni,” Cic. Cael. 25, 61: “aurea,” Suet. Ner. 47; cf. id. ib. 12: “cornea,” Plin. 21, 20, 81, § 137: “plumbea,” id. 32, 10, 47, § 135.—Belonging to the toilet of women, Petr. 110; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 83 (al. buxides).—
II. Transf.: “ferrea,” an iron cap fitted to the lower end of a pestle, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112.
