plate
plate
subs.
Dish: Ar. λεκά̆νη, ἡ, λοπά̆ς, ἡ.
Silver plate: P. ἀργύριον ἄσημον.
Gold plate: P. χρυσίον ἄσημον.
subs.
Dish: Ar. λεκά̆νη, ἡ, λοπά̆ς, ἡ.
Silver plate: P. ἀργύριον ἄσημον.
Gold plate: P. χρυσίον ἄσημον.
PLATE
s. A flat broad piece of metal lamina; bractea (very thin): a copper-plate *lamina aenea: copper-plate (i.e. the impression) *pictura linearis per laminas aeneas expressa (Ern.); *imago aere excusa (Wyttenbach); *imago aeneae laminae ope descripta expressa (Kraft).
A platter catillus or catillum.
Wrought gold or silver vasa argentea aurea; or simply argentum aurum; supellex argentea aurea: chased plate argentum caelatum: in castris Pompeii videre licuit magnum argenti pondus (a great quanty of plate Caes. B.C. 3 96).
s. A flat broad piece of metal lamina; bractea (very thin): a copper-plate *lamina aenea: copper-plate (i.e. the impression) *pictura linearis per laminas aeneas expressa (Ern.); *imago aere excusa (Wyttenbach); *imago aeneae laminae ope descripta expressa (Kraft).
A platter catillus or catillum.
Wrought gold or silver vasa argentea aurea; or simply argentum aurum; supellex argentea aurea: chased plate argentum caelatum: in castris Pompeii videre licuit magnum argenti pondus (a great quanty of plate Caes. B.C. 3 96).
v. *argento obducere; *inducere rei argentum aurum or bracteas auri argenti: plated bracteatus (Sen.).
plate (subs.):
I. A thin layer of metal:
1. lāmĭna, sync. lamna: a metal p. with an inscription was found, inventa est l., et in ea scriptum ..., Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 58: red hot p.s (used in the torture), l. ardentes, id. Verr. 5, 63, 163: to draw (make) thin p.s of silver, l. (ex argento) ducere, Plin. 33, 9, 45.
2. bractea (very thin leaf; used in plating goods): Lucr.: Virg.: v.LEAF (III.); and PLATED . Dimin., bracteola, Juv.
II. Wrought silver and gold:
1. argentum (used so as to comprehend gold as well as silver vessels, cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 162, proposito argento, referring to the entire service of such utensils in a wealthy house): plain opp. to chased p., a. purum (opp. caelatum), Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 49: cf. ib. 23, 52: also, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9, apponitur coena ... in argento puro et antiquo: to use earthenware as if it were p., fictilibus sic uti quam argento, Sen. Ep. 5, 5.
2. vāsa argentea (aurea): Cic. Inv. 2, 40, 116 (where gen. pl. vasorum argenteorum occurs): Hor.: cf. ib., vasa magnifica et pretiose caelata: also, Corinthia (sc. vasa), chased p., Plin. Ep. l. c. (avoid supellex argentea; supellex being properly exclusive of plate).
3. tŏreuma, ătis, n. (any chased, embossed work = caelatum opus): Sall. Cat. 20: Cic.
III. A platter:
1. cătillus: to dine out of a wooden p., ligneis c. coenare, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5: Hor.
2. pătella: Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 2 (nec modica coenare times olus omne patella, unless the word there = dish): Mart.
IV. Used for engraving: *lāmĭna: Kr.: Ern.: etc. The picture itself, is pictura; or more exactly, imago [aeneae, etc.] laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kr.).
I. A thin layer of metal:
1. lāmĭna, sync. lamna: a metal p. with an inscription was found, inventa est l., et in ea scriptum ..., Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 58: red hot p.s (used in the torture), l. ardentes, id. Verr. 5, 63, 163: to draw (make) thin p.s of silver, l. (ex argento) ducere, Plin. 33, 9, 45.
2. bractea (very thin leaf; used in plating goods): Lucr.: Virg.: v.
II. Wrought silver and gold:
1. argentum (used so as to comprehend gold as well as silver vessels, cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 162, proposito argento, referring to the entire service of such utensils in a wealthy house): plain opp. to chased p., a. purum (opp. caelatum), Cic. Verr. 4, 22, 49: cf. ib. 23, 52: also, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 9, apponitur coena ... in argento puro et antiquo: to use earthenware as if it were p., fictilibus sic uti quam argento, Sen. Ep. 5, 5.
2. vāsa argentea (aurea): Cic. Inv. 2, 40, 116 (where gen. pl. vasorum argenteorum occurs): Hor.: cf. ib., vasa magnifica et pretiose caelata: also, Corinthia (sc. vasa), chased p., Plin. Ep. l. c. (avoid supellex argentea; supellex being properly exclusive of plate).
3. tŏreuma, ătis, n. (any chased, embossed work = caelatum opus): Sall. Cat. 20: Cic.
III. A platter:
1. cătillus: to dine out of a wooden p., ligneis c. coenare, Val. Max. 4, 3, 5: Hor.
2. pătella: Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 2 (nec modica coenare times olus omne patella, unless the word there = dish): Mart.
IV. Used for engraving: *lāmĭna: Kr.: Ern.: etc. The picture itself, is pictura; or more exactly, imago [aeneae, etc.] laminae ope descripta, expressa (Kr.).
plate (v.): Phr.: to p. with silver, *argento inducere; aeri (stanno, etc.) bracteam argenteam inducere (v. TO OVERLAY ): to p. a vessel with iron, *navis latera ferreis laminis munire, firmare.