lucerna; lychnus (☞ lampas, poetical): a little lamp, lucernula (late): a lamp-stand, lychnuchus: a lamp with two burners, lucerna bilychnis (Petronius): to put oil into a lamp, instillare oleum lumini (Cic.): to light a lamp, lucernam accendere (Phaedrus.): the wick of a lamp, lamp cotton, ellychnium (Plin.): lamp oil, *oleum quod in lumen, or in usum lumini*, uritur (after Verg., Aen., 7, 13; Tac., Ann., 15, 44, 4).