Cista

Cistam posuit ex Medicorum consilio prope eum, in quem alium se mortuum fingentem pacuit; hic in cista jacens, &c. 3467. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The wooden _tabellae_, placed in the _cista_ or wicker box, were marked U.R. (_uti rogas_) and A. (_antiquo_) in the case of a proposed law; L. (_libero_) and D. (_damno_) in the case of a public trial; in the case of an election, _puncta_ were made opposite the names or initials of the candidates. ❋ Various (N/A)

_ The mysterious object is probably the mystic casket (_cista_) containing the [Greek: phallos], emblem of fertility. ❋ Lucius Apuleius (1914)

In quadam cista juxta analogium de latere refectorii (9 vols.). ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)

Sardian coins give Zeus with the thunderbolt, or Phoebus with the lyre; those of Smyrna are stamped with a standing ox, a ram, and the caduceus, a female panther and the thyrsus, or a hero reclining beneath a plane-tree; those of Tarsus with the Dionysian cista, the ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

This boat, like the mystic egg of Erôs or the cista of Dionysos, symbolised the embryo of cosmic life. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Bishop Hall, and Purchas in his 'Pilgrims,' have _chist_ for _chest_, and it is certainly nearer _cista_, as well as to its form in the ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

_cist-vaen_, means a stone-chamber, from _cista_, a chest, and _vaen_, the modified form of _maen_ or _mên_, stone. ❋ Unknown (1861)

"Omnia ista inventa fuerunt in quadam cista in Dormitorio S. ❋ Various (N/A)

There is the poor gentleman's garret high on the topmost story of some tottering _insula_, close beneath the tiles, where the doves nest: lectus erat Codro Procula minor, urceoli sex ornamentum abaci nec non et parvulus infra cantharus, et recubans sub eodem marmore Chiro iamque vetus graecos servabat cista libellos, et divina opici rodebant carmina mures (iii. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

Edward I. in the Castle of Edinburgh in 1292, he says it is in a list of muniments, &c., found "_in quadam cista in dormitorio S. ❋ Various (1852)

Calix de auro puro valoris xl Ubrarum vel circiter impignoratus per Decanum et Capitulum tempore M.J. Appelby, quondam Decani, pro 1 marcis sterlingorum in cista Micbaelis de Northburgh, "quondam Epiacopi Londoniensia. ❋ Unknown (1770)

[my friend] [Cista] [rocks my world] every night. ❋ Chrissygurl182lovesyou (2007)