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Sportella

（σπυρίδιον), dim. of sporta. A small basket in which cakes and other dainties were passed at table (Domit. 4).

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

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