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CAPSARIUS

Volume 6 · 65 words · 1842 Edition

(from capsu, a satchel), in Antiquity, a servant who attended the Roman youth to school, carrying a satchel with their books in it. He was sometimes also called librarius.

CAPSARIUS was likewise 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.