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CAPSARIUS

Volume 5 · 63 words · 1823 Edition

(from capsu, satchel), in antiquity, a servant who attended the Roman youth to school, carrying a satchel 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 capsu, "a chest,") among the Roman bankers, was he who had the care of the money chest or coffer.