clepsydra

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From Latin clepsydra, from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra), from κλέπτειν (kléptein, “to steal”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

CINESIAS You can easily primp yourself in the Clepsydra. — Lysistrata, Aristophanes
The overseer of the second gang watched the loading of the baskets strapped to his men's backs, noted the time on his clepsydra, which stood on a near-by ledge, and started the men one by one, in quick succession. — Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain, C. Bryson Taylor
He sate in an ancient fashioned carre, drawne by fower horned fauns or satyrs, with his louing and faire wife Pomona, crowned with delicate fruits, hir haire hanging downe ouer hir shoulders, of a flaxen colour, and thus she sate participating of hir husbands pleasure and quiet, and at hir feete laie a vessell called Clepsydra[C]. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna

water clock, water glass

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