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Sinum

or Sinus (δῖνος). A bowl used for wine or milk. It was large and deep and round in shape (Varro, L. L. v. 123; Verg. Ecl. vii. 33).

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

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