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CAPSARIUS

Volume 4 · 62 words · 1797 Edition

from caps/a, latchel, in antiquity, a servant who attended the Roman youth to school, carrying a latchel with their books in it, sometimes also called librarius.

CAPSARIUS was also an attendant at the baths, to whom persons committed the keeping of their clothes.

(from caps/a, "a chest"), among the Roman bankers, was he who had the care of the money-chest or coffer.