Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Rom, antiq., a small ladle with which wine was dipped out for libations, etc.
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One of the most celebrated vases in the Neapolitan collection was found with a bronze simpulum in it; and upon the vase itself there was a sacrificial painting, representing a priest in the act of pouring out a libation from a vase with the simpulum.
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