A dictionary of Greek and Roman . rdingly find them mentioned together withthe paedagogi. (Suet. Ner. 36.) When the capsa contained books of importance,it was sealed or kept under lock and key (Mart. ) ; whence Horace (Bp. i. 20. 3) says to hiswork, Odisti claves, et grata sigilla pudico. (Becker,Gallus, vol. i. p. 191 ; Bottiger, Sabina, vol. 102, &c.) CAPSARII, the name of three different classesof slaves : — 1. Of those who took care of theclothes of persons while bathing in the publicbaths. [Balneae, p. 189.] In later times theywere subject to the jurisdiction of the
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . rdingly find them mentioned together withthe paedagogi. (Suet. Ner. 36.) When the capsa contained books of importance,it was sealed or kept under lock and key (Mart. ) ; whence Horace (Bp. i. 20. 3) says to hiswork, Odisti claves, et grata sigilla pudico. (Becker,Gallus, vol. i. p. 191 ; Bottiger, Sabina, vol. 102, &c.) CAPSARII, the name of three different classesof slaves : — 1. Of those who took care of theclothes of persons while bathing in the publicbaths. [Balneae, p. 189.] In later times theywere subject to the jurisdiction of the praefectusvigilum. (Dig. 1. tit. 15. s. 3.) 2. Of those whohad the care of the capsae, in which books andletters were kept. [Capsa.] 3. Of those whocarried the books, &c. of boys to school. [Capsa.] CAPSULA. [Capsa.] CAPULUS (kcUtttj, \a€v). 1. The hilt of asword, which was frequently much ornamented.[Gladius.] The handles of knives were alsomuch ornamented ; and of the beautiful work-manship sometimes bestowed on them, a judgment. may be formed from the three specimens here in-troduced. (Montfaucon, Ant. Eccpliquee, iii. 61.) 2. A bier or coffin. [Funus.] CAPUT, the head. The term head is oftenused by the Roman writers as equivalent to per-son, or human being. (Caes. Bell. Gall. iv. 15.)By an easy transition, it was used to signify life:thus, capite damnari, plecti, &c. are equivalent tocapital punishment. Caput is also used to express a mans civil con-dition ; and the persons who were registered in thetables of the censor are spoken of as capita, some-times with the addition of the word civium, andsometimes not. ( 24, x. 47.) Thus to beregistered in the census was the same thing ascaput habere : and a slave and a filius familias, inthis sense of the word, were said to have no lowest century of Servius Tullius comprisedthe proletarii and the capite censi, of whom the latter, having little or no property, were barelyrated as so many head of citize
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