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CAPISTE´RIUM

CAPISTE´RIUM an instrument employed for cleansing the ears of corn after they had been threshed out and winnowed. It was used differently from the sieve (cribrum) and the winnowing shovel (pala, vannus); and was probably a wooden trough (alveus), into which the corn was put and shaken up, so that the heavy grains subsided to the bottom (Rich). Saglio suggests that these heavy grains may have been selected for sowing. (Col. 1.9, 11; Apul. Met. x. p. 193.)

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. William Smith, LLD. William Wayte. G. E. Marindin. Albemarle Street, London. John Murray. 1890.

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William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890)
William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, Ed.