caccabus
basia caccābis dum stultus tradidit atris
~um,cetil
cacabus,cytel
lignum a quo cacabum et instrumenta pandoxandi appendere solebamus
cācăbus, urceolus, plumbumque, trapeta, patelle
ad unius ~i grossitudinem vesice pellicula se extenderat
duo cacubi inventi fuerunt in campo ‥ et multa bona inventa fuerunt in eisdem
in stipendio braceatoris cum juvaminibus cacab’ locat’ et candel’
fuligo ‥ que raditur a funda patelle veteris vel cacabi
coci ‥ respondeant ‥ de omnibus vasis eneis, ollis, urceis, cacabis, patellis
j fabro de quo conduximus cacabum
iij cacabasereas(
cacabum eneum cum coopertorio
cawdrone, vessel , cacabus, caldaria, lebes
ciphos, cacobos, ollas
nimphea sive ut alii cacabus Veneris i. papaver †plaustre [l. palustre ] nascitur in aquis stantibus ‥; flos est illi albus sicut lilii
CAC´CABUSless correctly CACABUS, a cooking-pot. The statement of Varro, L. L. 5.127, vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, may be accepted in proof of the meaning of the word, however absurd as an etymology. The Greek forms κακκάβη and κάκκαβος both occur in the Comic Fragments, and the former is as old as Aristophanes (see Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, and compare Phrynichus, p. 427, Lobeck; p. 496, Rutherford).
The different processes of boiling and frying are not always clearly distinguished in the ancient kitchen (cf. SARTAGO; Mayor on Juven. 10.64; Mommsen-Marquardt, 7.636). It seems certain, however, that the caccabus was used for boiling meat, vegetables, &c.; and that it was placed immediately upon the fire, or upon a trivet (tripus) standing over it. It is thus distinguished from the AENUMwhich was suspended over the fire (Serv. on Aen. 1.213; Paul. Dig. 33, 7, 18.3); and from the AUTHEPSAwhich was probably not used for cooking at all. The material varied. Athenaeus, in an enumeration of σκεύη μαγειρικά, mentions the κακκάβη as equivalent to the χύτρα, i.e. earthen cooking-pot or pipkin (4.169 c); and so usually in Latin (fictilis, Marquardt, l. c.; Colum. R. R. 12.41). But caccabi were also sometimes of metal; stanneus, doubtless, as in modern times, of tinned iron or block tin, Colum. R. R. 12.42.1; aeneus, ib. 12.48.1; arqgenteus, Ulpian in Dig. 34, 2, 19.12.
[W.W]less correctly Cacabus (κάκκαβος, κακκάβη). A cooking-pot. The statement of Varro, L. L. v. 127, vas ubi coquebant cibum, ab eo caccabum appellarunt, may be accepted in proof of the meaning of the word, however absurd as an etymology. The Greek forms κακκάβη and κάκκαβος both occur in the Comic Fragments, and the former is as old as Aristophanes.
The different processes of boiling and frying are not always clearly distinguished in the ancient kitchen. (See Sartago.) It seems certain, however, that the caccabus was used for boiling meat, vegetables, etc.; and that it was placed immediately upon the fire, or upon a trivet (tripus) standing over it. It is thus distinguished from the aenum, which was suspended over the fire ( Serv. ad Verg. Aen. i. 213); and from the authepsa (q. v.), which was probably not used for cooking at all. The material varied. Athenaeus mentions the κακκάβη as equivalent to the χύτρα—i. e. the earthen cooking-pot—and so usually in Latin (fictilis). But caccabi were sometimes of metal—stanneus (of tin), or argenteus. See Colum. R. R. xii. 42, 1.