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LI´GULA

LI´GULA a Roman measure of fluid capacity, containing one fourth of the CYATHUS (Columella, R. B. 12.21; Plin. Nat. 20.36.)

It signifies a spoonful, like cochlear; only the ligula was larger than the cochlear (see Mart. 8.33 and 71). The spoon which was called ligula, or lingula (dim. of lingua), from its shape, was used like a dessert-spoon. (Cato, Cat. Agr. 84; Plin. Nat. 21.84; Mart. 14.120; Becker-Göll, Gallus, 3.293; Marquardt, Privatleben, 314.) For a drawing of the ligula, see under COCHLEAR, where the larger spoon is the ligula, the smaller the cochlear. The word is also used for the leather tongue of a shoe (Pollux, 2.109, 7.80; Festus, s. v.). (See under CALCEUS p. 335.)

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. William Smith, LLD. William Wayte. G. E. Marindin. Albemarle Street, London. John Murray. 1890.

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890)
William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.

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William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.