pocket
subs.
Bag: Ar. σάκκος, ὁ, σακκίον, τό (also Xen.).
Met., money: P. and V. χρήμᾰτα, τά.
subs.
Bag: Ar. σάκκος, ὁ, σακκίον, τό (also Xen.).
Met., money: P. and V. χρήμᾰτα, τά.
pocket
v. trans.
Met., claim for oneself: Ar. and P. προσποιεῖσθαι (acc. or gen.).
Endure, put up with: P. and V. στέργειν (acc. or dat.), Ar. and P. ἀ̆γᾰπᾶν (acc. or dat.).
v. trans.
Met., claim for oneself: Ar. and P. προσποιεῖσθαι (acc. or gen.).
Endure, put up with: P. and V. στέργειν (acc. or dat.), Ar. and P. ἀ̆γᾰπᾶν (acc. or dat.).
POCKET
pera (a leathern travelling-bag suspended from the neck): marsupium (a money-bag or purse for large sums of money; for which we find also zona cingulum because fastened round the waist): crumena (a bag or purse for smaller sums of money slung round the neck and hanging on the breast). ☞ The ancients had no pockets; but instead of them they made use of the folds of their garments (sinus); hence we must always render our word “pocket” by sinus except when reference is made to money; in which case we may also employ one of the words above-mentioned; e.g. to bring home from the city a pocket-full of money sinum aeris plenum or marsupium plenum urbe domum reportare. To put one’s hand in one’s pocket sinum laxare or expedire (in general in order to take anything out): manum in crumenam demittere (to take out money): to pocket or put a thing into one’s pocket; PROP. aliquid in sinum inserere; (figuratively i.e. to appropriate a thing) aliquid domum suam avertere convertere or ferre; or simply aliquid avertere: to pocket an affront contumelias perpeti: to search one’s pockets aliquem or alicujus vestem excutere: out of one’s own pocket e peculiaribus loculis suis (Suet. Galb. 12): a book of a pocket size *liber minoribus plagulis descriptus.
pera (a leathern travelling-bag suspended from the neck): marsupium (a money-bag or purse for large sums of money; for which we find also zona cingulum because fastened round the waist): crumena (a bag or purse for smaller sums of money slung round the neck and hanging on the breast). ☞ The ancients had no pockets; but instead of them they made use of the folds of their garments (sinus); hence we must always render our word “pocket” by sinus except when reference is made to money; in which case we may also employ one of the words above-mentioned; e.g. to bring home from the city a pocket-full of money sinum aeris plenum or marsupium plenum urbe domum reportare. To put one’s hand in one’s pocket sinum laxare or expedire (in general in order to take anything out): manum in crumenam demittere (to take out money): to pocket or put a thing into one’s pocket; PROP. aliquid in sinum inserere; (figuratively i.e. to appropriate a thing) aliquid domum suam avertere convertere or ferre; or simply aliquid avertere: to pocket an affront contumelias perpeti: to search one’s pockets aliquem or alicujus vestem excutere: out of one’s own pocket e peculiaribus loculis suis (Suet. Galb. 12): a book of a pocket size *liber minoribus plagulis descriptus.
pocket (subs.): no exact word: perh. *sacculus vestimento assutus. (N.B.--For pocket = purse, see latter word.)
pocket (v.): Phr.: to p. money (dishonestly), pecuniam intercipere (cf. Tac. A. 4, 45, fin., pecunias e publico interceptas acrius ... cogebat); p. avertere (with ref. to public funds: v. TO EMBEZZLE ): to p. an affront or injury, contumeliam perpeti, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 3; injuriam accipere et mussitare (to hold one's tongue about it), id. Ad. 2, 1, extr.
Pocket
See sinus.