. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. instead of being tied up into a tuft Q 2 116 CAPSA. {cirrus), sl very common , s. v. Xen. Equest. v. 6. CAPSA. A deep, circularwooden box or case (Plin. H. 84.), in which things are depo-sited to be removed from place to. place, but more especially employedfor the transport of books. (Ci
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. instead of being tied up into a tuft Q 2 116 CAPSA. {cirrus), sl very common , s. v. Xen. Equest. v. 6. CAPSA. A deep, circularwooden box or case (Plin. H. 84.), in which things are depo-sited to be removed from place to. place, but more especially employedfor the transport of books. (Cic. inCod. Div. 16. Hor. Sat. i. 4. 22. 63.) The illustration representstwo of these boxes, one open .withthe rolls or volumes inside it, from aPompeian painting ; the other, withthe lid shut down and locked, from aMS. of Virgil in the Vatican. Bothhave straps attached, for the conve-nience of carrying them about. CAPSARIUS. A slave whocarried his young masters capsa, orbox of books to and from Nero, 36. Juv. Sat. x. 117. 2. A slave attached to the serviceof the public baths, whose duty itwas to take charge of the wearingapparel left by the bathers in theundressing room, to prevent theirbeing stolen; a species of theft fre-quently occurring at Rome. i. 15. 3. Compare Ovid, ArtAmat iii. 639. Plaut. Rud. ii. 3. 51. CAPSELLA. A double diminu-tive of Caps a ; a very small box, inwhich were kept dried fruits ( 33. 7. 12.), or womens trinkets;sometimes suspended from a chainround their nec
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