The corpus record — Latin

lagena

lagena · f

a large earthen vessel with a neck and handles, a flask, flagon, bottle

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 15 · 2.67/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

lăgēna — Lewis & Short

lăgēna (also lăgaena, lăgoena, and lăgōna), ae, f., = la/ghnos,

I a large earthen vessel with a neck and handles, a flask, flagon, bottle: quasi tu lagenam dicas, ubi vinum solet Chium esse, Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 78; Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2; Quint. 6, 3, 10; Hor. S. 2, 8, 41; 81; id. Ep. 2, 2, 134; Juv. 12, 60; 14, 271 et saep.—Also made of other materials, Plin. 16, 31, 56, § 128: Syra nigri defruti, of glass, Mart. 4, 46, 9.

In the wild

lagonaque Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.114.5
lagonam Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 1.6
lagonam Martial, Epigrammata 9.87.7
lagona Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.29
lagona Martial, Epigrammata 7.53.6
lagona Martial, Epigrammata 10.45.6

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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