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A Lacrymatory, at the Beja museum in Portugal.. A lacrymatory, lachrymatory or lacrimarium (from the Latin lacrima, 'tear') is a small vessel of terracotta or, more frequently, of glass, found in Roman and late Greek tombs, and formerly supposed to have been bottles into which mourners dropped their tears.
Since the early 20th century, the use of a vessel to collect tears of grief has been regarded as more poetic than plausible. [65] In January 1896, The Atlantic Monthly published a poem by Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916) called "A Tear Bottle." which reference Greek Girl Tears, alluding to the role that the tear bottle played during Greek ...
Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC). Some recent quotations have included rerum lacrimae sunt or sunt lacrimae rerum meaning "there are tears of (or for) things."
The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness World Records said in a statement. Australians Tonya and Kym Illman found the message on ...
New cloth had not yet shrunk, so that using new cloth to patch older clothing would result in a tear as it began to shrink. [10] Similarly, old wineskins had been "stretched to the limit" [ 10 ] or become brittle [ 2 ] as wine had fermented inside them; using them again therefore risked bursting them.
For the record: 1:27 p.m. Aug. 15, 2023: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the writers of the episode “Grab Your Hankies.”They are Matteo Borghese and Rob Turbovsky ...
Tears of wine show clearly in the shadow of this glass of 13.5% Caluso Passito dessert wine. The phenomenon called tears of wine (French: Larmes de vin; German: Kirchenfenster, lit. "church windows") is manifested as a ring of clear liquid, near the top of a glass of wine, from which droplets continuously form and drop back into the wine.
The letter in cursive writing is dated March 4, 1945, with its letterhead marked “United States Navy, Amphibious Training Base in Little Creek, Virginia.”