Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Confectionery, Conopēum

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（κωνωπεῖον, from κώνωψ, “a mosquito”). A mosquito-curtain—i. e. a covering made to be expanded over beds and conches to keep away gnats and other flying insects. These curtains were much used in Egypt ( Orig. xix. 5, 5), and by Roman ladies as early as Varro's time. (See Varro, R. R. ii. 10.) The conopeum (whence the English word “canopy”) was also known in Latin as cubiculare.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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