• BOX

1.

• arca (with a lock, low, and placed on the ground): cista and (still smaller) capsa (both portable, for valuables, books, fruit, etc.): armarium (for things in constant use, books, clothes, etc.: it was higher than an area, had divisions, and was sometimes placed against a wall): scrinium (with divisions, or pigeon-holes, for letters, medicines, valuables): pyxis (for drugs, etc., PROP. of box-wood, also of any wood, and even of metal): arcula, capsula, capsella, cistula, cistellula. An ointment box, narthecium. A lot box, situla. Ballot box, cista, cistula. Dice box, phimus, fritillus, orca. A strong box, arca. Box to keep ornaments in, arcula ornamentorum, pyxis: for rings, dactyliotheca. A clothes box, armarium. A box in a shop, nidus. A box in a chest, loculus. A box for plants, vas. A medicine box, narthecium.
• A Christmas box (present), strena.
• In a theatre, spectaculum altum. (Vid: Liv.., i., 35.)

2. v. concludere, includere, in arca, cista; sepire, obsepire.

3. a blow, alapa (in the face with the open hand) colaphus (with the fist). To give one a box on the ear, alicui colaphum ducere, impingere, infringere; palma aliquem percutere. To box one’s ears soundly, aliquem percutere colaphis.

4. v. fight with the fists, pugnis certare. A boxing match, pugillatio, pugillatus. A boxer, qui pugnis certat, pugil.

5. a tree, buxus. Box-wood, buxum. Made of box-wood, buxeus. A flute of box-wood, tibia buxea, or simply buxus, buxum. Full of box., buxosus. A plate planted with box, buxetum.