MODI´OLUS
MODI´OLUS the diminutive of
MODIUS is used for various kinds of small vessels:
for a drinking-cup,
Dig. 34,
2,
36; for the buckets on the edge of the
tympanum, by which water was raised (
Vitr. 10.10), and generally for any kind of
bucket or small cistern in hydraulic machinery (ib. 12, 13); and hence, from
its shape, it is also used for the box or nave (
πλήμνη) of a wheel (
Plin. Nat.
9.8;
Vitr. 10.14), for the nave or
socket into which the axle of the crusher in an oil press fits (
TRAPETUM), and for other kinds
of sockets (
Vitr. 10.18).
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