ăcerra — Lewis & Short
ăcerra, ae, f.etym. unc., perh. from ăcer = maple,
I a casket in which was kept the incense used in sacrifices, esp. in burning the dead, an incense-box: ne sumptuosa respersio, ne longae coronae, nec acerrae praetereantur, from the XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60:
plenā veneratur larem,Verg. A. 5, 745; cf.:
plena turis,Hor. C. 3, 8, 2;
tacitā libabit acerrā,Pers. 2, 5; so also Ov. M. 13, 703; id. Pont. 4, 8, 39; Fratr. Arval. in Orell. I. L. 2270, p. 391 al. Cf. Fest. s. h. v. p. 18 Müll, who gives another signif.:
ACERRA, ara, quae ante mortuum poni solebat.