Pyxis, pyxidis, pen. cor. f. g. Quint. A boxe.Pyxis ferrea. Plin. Cornea. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pyxis (puxis, Juv. 13, 25; Scrib. Comp. 228), ĭdis, f., = puci/s.I.Lit., a box, a small box, esp. for unguents, medicines, etc. — Orig., of boxes made of boxwood, then of those of any kind of wood, and finally, also, of metallic boxes: veneni, Cic. Cael. 25, 61: aurea, Suet. Ner. 47; cf. id. ib. 12: cornea, Plin. 21, 20, 81, 137: plumbea, id. 32, 10, 47, 135.—Belonging to the toilet of women, Petr. 110; Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 83 (al. buxides).—II.Transf.: ferrea,