Note 375 — Chapter II · HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
Reading edition
This profusion of wearing apparel was laid up in trunks and mallekins of wickerwork. The former were called κιβωτοὶ, the latter κίσται.—Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 233. Clem. Alexand. Pæd. iii. Hesych. v. v. κιβωτὸς—κίστη. Mention is also made of presses.—Mazois, Pal. de Scaur. p. 120.