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

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Puteus

（φρέαρ).

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1.

A well dug in the ground

Roman Well. (From the Basilica of S. Giovanni Laterano, Rome.)

and supplied from its own spring.

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2.

The fountain in a Roman house. (See Domus.)

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3.

A pit for storing grain (Varro, R. R. i. 57).