Fistŭla
Properly a reed, a Pan's-pipe (σύριγξ); then a water-pipe (σωλήν), usually made of lead, but in the villa of Antoninus Pius of pure silver (cf. Stat. Silv. i. 5, 48).
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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