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urna , ae, f. prop. a vessel of burnt clay; root uro,
I.a vessel for drawing water, a water-pot, water-jar, urn.
I. Lit.: “urnae dictae, quod urinant in aquā hauriendā ut urinator,Varr. L. L. 5, § 126 Müll.; Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 16; 4 (5), 11, 28; Ov. F. 3, 14; id. M. 3, 37; 3, 172; Hor. C. 3, 11, 22; id. S. 1, 5, 91; 1, 1, 54.—As an attribute of personified rivers, Verg. A. 7, 792; Sil. 1, 407.—Of the constellation Aquarius, Ov. F. 2, 457; Sen. Thyest. 865.—
II. Transf., in gen., an urn used for any purpose.
A. Most freq., a vessel into which were thrown the voting-tablets or lots of any kind.
2. The urn of fate, from which is drawn the lot of every one's destiny: “omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura,Hor. C. 2, 3, 26: “omne capax movet urna nomen,id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Verg. A. 6, 432; Stat. S. 2, 1, 219: “nomina in urnam coicere,Liv. 23, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 2.—
B. A vessel to hold the ashes of the dead, a cinerary urn, Ov. H. 11, 124; id. M. 4, 166; 11, 706; 12, 616; 14, 441; id. Tr. 3, 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 15; Luc. 7, 819; Sen. Troad. 375.—
C. A money-pot, money-jar: “argenti,Hor. S. 2, 6, 10.—
D. A liquid measure containing half an amphora, an urn, Cato, R. R. 148, 1; Col. 12, 41; Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 263; Pers. 5, 144.—
2. A measure in gen., Cato, R. R. 10, 2; 13, 3; Juv. 15, 25.
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    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.42
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.44
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.166
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.2
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.22
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.432
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.792
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.91
    • Horace, Satires, 2.1.47
    • Horace, Satires, 2.6.10
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.37
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 15
    • Suetonius, Nero, 21
    • Lucan, Civil War, 7.819
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 3
    • Seneca, Thyestes, 865
    • Seneca, Troades, 375
    • Seneca, Troades, 974
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.484
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.3
    • Persius, Saturae, 5
    • Statius, Silvae, 2.1
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
    • Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, 1.2.7
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