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fiscella, ae, f. (also fiscellus, i, m., Col. 12, 38, 6, v. fiscellus), dim. [fiscina], a small basket for fruit, cheese-forms, etc., woven of slender twigs, rushes, etc. (syn.: fscina, qualus, canistrum, calathus, sporta, corbis), Tib. 2, 3, 15; Verg. E. 10, 71; Ov. F. 4, 743; Col. 12, 18, 2; Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 14.
As a muzzle for cattle, Cato, R. R. 54, 5; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177.
As a form for cheese: fiscella = forma, ubi casei exprimuntur, Gloss. Isid.

1. fiscellus, i, m. dim. [fiscina].

  1. I. I. q. fiscella, q. v.
  2. II. FISCELLUS casei mollis appetitor, ut catillones catillorum liguritores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 90, 2 (acc. to Müll. we should perh. read FISCELLO; see his note ad loc.).

2. Fiscellus, i, m., a chain of mountains in the Sabine territory, in which the river Nar takes its rise, now called Monte Fiscello or Monti della Sibilla, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 109; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 5; Sil. 8, 519.