antiquity, a vessel wherein were collected the tears of a deceased person's friends, and preserved along with the ashes and urn. They were small glass or earthen bottles, chiefly in the form of phials. At the Roman funerals, the friends Lacinium of the deceased, or the prefice, women hired for that purpose, used to fill them with their tears, and depose them very carefully with the ashes, in testimony of their sorrow, imagining the names of the deceased were thereby gratified. Many specimens of them are preserved in the cabinets of the curious, particularly in the British Museum.