Aero
Aero a basket made of osiers, rushes, or sedge (Donat. ad Ter. Phorm. 1.2, 72; Vitr. 5.12), and used to contain sand (Plin H. N. 26.96), or wheat (Dig. 19, 2, 31). Rich identifies as aerones large baskets, somewhat wider at the top than the bottom, carried by soldiers employed on excavations, &c., on the bas-reliefs of Trajan's column.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.