I.a place where things are put away, laid up, a repository, storehouse, magazine, warehouse, etc., Cic. Phil. 2, 27, so id. Vatin. 5; Dig. 33, 7, 12; esp. for wine, a store-room (not wine-cellar, since the ancients kept their wine in the upper part of the house), * Hor. S. 2, 5, 7; Plin. 14, 14, 16, § 49; 14, 4, 6, § 57; Dig. 47, 2, 21, Arn. 7, p. 236; “also for oil: apothecae olei,” Vulg. 1 Par. 27, 28; “for corn: apothecae frumenti,” ib. 2 Par. 32, 28; ib. Joel, 1, 17; “for armor, equipments: omnes apothecas supellectilis suae,” ib. Isa. 39, 2.
ăpŏthēca , ae, f., = ἀποθήκη [corrupted in Ital. to bottega, in Fr. to boutique, and in Germ. to Bude = booth, shop],
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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