Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Lanx

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Originally a large dish, probably flat. The name is thus generally applied to all sorts of plates and platters, of various forms and sizes. It was probably always of metal, often silver (Marquardt, Privatleben, 654).

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The metal dishes of the Roman balance (libra) also received the name lances; and the balance itself is sometimes called libra bilanx. See Lancula.

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

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