purse
purse
subs.
Ar. and P. βαλλάντιον, τό.
subs.
Ar. and P. βαλλάντιον, τό.
PURSE
sacculus; marsupium (sacculus PROP. any little sack or bag; then = marsupium money-bag purse which was only a small leathern bag often closed by being drawn together at the mouth): crumena (money-bag usually worn round the neck Plaut. As. 3 3 67; Truc. 3 1 7): zona (the girdle to which a purse was fastened or which was so folded as to serve the purpose of a purse: so also cingulum): loculi: area: theca nummaria (money chest): follis (any leathern bag). A full purse marsupium bene nummatum: an empty purse crumena deficiens (†): to put money in a purse nummos in crumenam demittere: to empty one’s purse exinanire: to fill it implere (both Varr. of fish-ponds the produce of which fills or empties the purse according to its abundance or deficiency): to empty one’s whole purse marsupium exenterare (comedy): to open one’s purse (i.e. to draw money out of it) thecam nummariam retegere (Cic.): out of one’s purse e peculiaribus loculis suis (e.g. donare aliquid): privato sumtu (at one’s own cost; e.g. bellum gerere); impendio privato (to one’s own loss; e.g. fidem publicam exsolvere); de suo (e.g. numerare pecuniam); suis opibus (from one’s own resources; e.g. juvare aliquem). To consider anybody’s purse one’s own alicujus area non secus ac mea utor: his purse is open to everybody nulli deest res ejus familiaris: to make a purse for himself perhaps *suo privato compendio servire; *suis rebus or rationibus consulere: they have a common purse pecuniae conjunctim ratio habetur: a cut-purse sector zonarius (Plaut.).
sacculus; marsupium (sacculus PROP. any little sack or bag; then = marsupium money-bag purse which was only a small leathern bag often closed by being drawn together at the mouth): crumena (money-bag usually worn round the neck Plaut. As. 3 3 67; Truc. 3 1 7): zona (the girdle to which a purse was fastened or which was so folded as to serve the purpose of a purse: so also cingulum): loculi: area: theca nummaria (money chest): follis (any leathern bag). A full purse marsupium bene nummatum: an empty purse crumena deficiens (†): to put money in a purse nummos in crumenam demittere: to empty one’s purse exinanire: to fill it implere (both Varr. of fish-ponds the produce of which fills or empties the purse according to its abundance or deficiency): to empty one’s whole purse marsupium exenterare (comedy): to open one’s purse (i.e. to draw money out of it) thecam nummariam retegere (Cic.): out of one’s purse e peculiaribus loculis suis (e.g. donare aliquid): privato sumtu (at one’s own cost; e.g. bellum gerere); impendio privato (to one’s own loss; e.g. fidem publicam exsolvere); de suo (e.g. numerare pecuniam); suis opibus (from one’s own resources; e.g. juvare aliquem). To consider anybody’s purse one’s own alicujus area non secus ac mea utor: his purse is open to everybody nulli deest res ejus familiaris: to make a purse for himself perhaps *suo privato compendio servire; *suis rebus or rationibus consulere: they have a common purse pecuniae conjunctim ratio habetur: a cut-purse sector zonarius (Plaut.).
purse (subs.):
1. crŭmēna (less freq. -īna): usually hung round the neck, cf. Pl. As. 3. 3, 67, hic istam colloca crumenam in collo plane: to take out one's p., cr. de collo detrahere; put (money) into one's p., condere in cr.; bring home in one's p., in cr. (in urbem) deferre; all in id. Truc. 3, 1, 7-10: with one's p. full, non deficiente cr., Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 11: to rob or steal one's p., crumenam pertundere (lit. to cut a hole in it), Pl. Ps. 1, 2, 38: hence perhaps, a cut-purse, *qui crumenam pertundit: but v. No. 4. (N.B.--Saccarius is rather an embezzler, Ulp. Dig. 47, 11, 7.) To tighten the p.-strings, *crumenam astringĕre, contrahĕre (by anal.).
2. marsūpĭum (Gr. μαρσύπιον· a leather pouch drawn in at the mouth): there were 800l. in my p., numi octingenti aurei in m. infuerunt, Pl. Rud. 5, 2, 26 (cf. ib. 31, inerat in crumena): to take more care of our p. than our life, majorem curam habere nos m. quam vitae nostrae, Varr. ap. Non. 2, 563: to rip up one's p., m. exenterare, Pl. Epid. 2, 2, 3: marine fish-preserves rather empty than fill their owner's p. maritimae piscinae potius m. domini exinaniunt, quam implent, Varr. R. R. 3, 17.
3. saccŭlus, m. (a small bag = scrip): Plin. 2, 51, 52: the p. is full to the mouth, pleno turget sacculus ore, Juv. 14, 138: prov. for an empty or light p., plenus s. est aranearum, Catull. 13, 7: opp. to arca, Juv. 11, 26, ignoret, quantum ferrata distet ab arca Sacculus (i. e. the difference between scanty means and large ones).
4. zōna (Gr. ζώνη· a girdle; a money-belt): (said C. Gracchus) I went from Rome with my p. full, and brought it back empty, zonas, quas plenas argenti extuli, eas ex provincia inanes rettuli, Gell. 15, 12, fin.: to lose one's p. (have it stolen), z. perdere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 40. Hence, a cut-purse, sector zonarius, Pl. Trin. 4, 2, 20. Join: cut-throats and cut-purses, sectores collorum et bonorum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80.
5. funda (rare, and scarcely to be followed) putting his hand in ... he drew out, demissa in pauperem fundam manu, paucos denarios protulit, Macr. Sat. 2, 4, fin. (funda seems by anal. to be a net-purse, for which reticulum may also be used: v.NET ). The following signify larger receptacles for money, but are often equivalent to our use of purse:
6. meton. arca (money-chest; store of money): (buy works of art for me and) trust my p., a. nostrae confidito, Cic. Att. 1, 9: such proceedings drain the governor's p., ea res arcam patris-*familias semper exhaurit, Col. 3, 3: to fill the p. with the price of, etc., pretiis eorum complere arcam, id. 8, 8: the public p., area quaestoria (= fiscus), Symm. 10, 33, 40.
7. lŏcŭli, always pl. (a receptacle with different compartments for various things): to deposit money safely in one's p., nummos in loculos demittere, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 175. Joined with sacculus, I've searched p. and pockets (to see if I'd a coin left), excussi loculosque sacculumque, Mart. 5, 40: used, like p., for bribery (= largitio), Auson. Grat. Act. 5: to give money out of one's own p., denarios donare, prolatos manu sua e peculiaribus loculis suis, Suet. Galb. 12, fin. (cf. No. 9).
8. thēca nūmārĭa (θήκη, repository): you won't have had to open your p., thecam numariam non retexeris, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
9. A privateor separate p. (esp. a wife's), pĕcūlĭum, Suet. Tib. 50: Ulp. Dig. 23, 3, 9 § 3: pĕcūliāres nummi, Paul. Dig. 12, 1, 31. Phr.: to pay out of one's own p., de suo numerare pecuniam, Cic. Att. 16, 16, A to have a long p., in suis nummis esse, Cic. Verr. 6, 6; or, versari, id. Rosc. Com. 8: to make a p. for oneself, opes condere, Virg. G. 2, 507: to go to market p. in hand (buy for ready money), praesenti pecunia mercari aliquid, Pl. Cap. 2, 2, 8: a man with a long (or full) p., homo bene nūmātus, Cic. Agr. 2, 22 (cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 38, Ac bene numatum decorat Suadela Venusque, Love and Persuasion bless the well-filled p.): homo pecuniosissimus, Cic. Verr. 5, 9 (cf. feminae pecuniosae, Suet. Aug. 5): I return with a fuller p., numatior revertor, App. M. 1, p. 105: a p.-bearer, *praebitor argentarius: perhaps dispensator, Macrob. Sat. 2, 4, fin.
1. crŭmēna (less freq. -īna): usually hung round the neck, cf. Pl. As. 3. 3, 67, hic istam colloca crumenam in collo plane: to take out one's p., cr. de collo detrahere; put (money) into one's p., condere in cr.; bring home in one's p., in cr. (in urbem) deferre; all in id. Truc. 3, 1, 7-10: with one's p. full, non deficiente cr., Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 11: to rob or steal one's p., crumenam pertundere (lit. to cut a hole in it), Pl. Ps. 1, 2, 38: hence perhaps, a cut-purse, *qui crumenam pertundit: but v. No. 4. (N.B.--Saccarius is rather an embezzler, Ulp. Dig. 47, 11, 7.) To tighten the p.-strings, *crumenam astringĕre, contrahĕre (by anal.).
2. marsūpĭum (Gr. μαρσύπιον· a leather pouch drawn in at the mouth): there were 800l. in my p., numi octingenti aurei in m. infuerunt, Pl. Rud. 5, 2, 26 (cf. ib. 31, inerat in crumena): to take more care of our p. than our life, majorem curam habere nos m. quam vitae nostrae, Varr. ap. Non. 2, 563: to rip up one's p., m. exenterare, Pl. Epid. 2, 2, 3: marine fish-preserves rather empty than fill their owner's p. maritimae piscinae potius m. domini exinaniunt, quam implent, Varr. R. R. 3, 17.
3. saccŭlus, m. (a small bag = scrip): Plin. 2, 51, 52: the p. is full to the mouth, pleno turget sacculus ore, Juv. 14, 138: prov. for an empty or light p., plenus s. est aranearum, Catull. 13, 7: opp. to arca, Juv. 11, 26, ignoret, quantum ferrata distet ab arca Sacculus (i. e. the difference between scanty means and large ones).
4. zōna (Gr. ζώνη· a girdle; a money-belt): (said C. Gracchus) I went from Rome with my p. full, and brought it back empty, zonas, quas plenas argenti extuli, eas ex provincia inanes rettuli, Gell. 15, 12, fin.: to lose one's p. (have it stolen), z. perdere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 40. Hence, a cut-purse, sector zonarius, Pl. Trin. 4, 2, 20. Join: cut-throats and cut-purses, sectores collorum et bonorum, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80.
5. funda (rare, and scarcely to be followed) putting his hand in ... he drew out, demissa in pauperem fundam manu, paucos denarios protulit, Macr. Sat. 2, 4, fin. (funda seems by anal. to be a net-purse, for which reticulum may also be used: v.
6. meton. arca (money-chest; store of money): (buy works of art for me and) trust my p., a. nostrae confidito, Cic. Att. 1, 9: such proceedings drain the governor's p., ea res arcam patris-*familias semper exhaurit, Col. 3, 3: to fill the p. with the price of, etc., pretiis eorum complere arcam, id. 8, 8: the public p., area quaestoria (= fiscus), Symm. 10, 33, 40.
7. lŏcŭli, always pl. (a receptacle with different compartments for various things): to deposit money safely in one's p., nummos in loculos demittere, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 175. Joined with sacculus, I've searched p. and pockets (to see if I'd a coin left), excussi loculosque sacculumque, Mart. 5, 40: used, like p., for bribery (= largitio), Auson. Grat. Act. 5: to give money out of one's own p., denarios donare, prolatos manu sua e peculiaribus loculis suis, Suet. Galb. 12, fin. (cf. No. 9).
8. thēca nūmārĭa (θήκη, repository): you won't have had to open your p., thecam numariam non retexeris, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
9. A private
purse (v.):
I. To put money into one's p. (Milton): v.PURSE , subs.
II. To draw together (pucker up) like the mouth of a p.: astringo, contrăho, 3: to p. the brow (Shaksp.), astringere frontem, Mart. 11, 40; contrahere frontem, Cic. Clu. 26, fin.; supercilia contrahere, Quint. 11, 3, 79: to p. the lips, astringere labra, Quint. 11, 3 (prop. to close, in silence: but it may be used by analogy).
I. To put money into one's p. (Milton): v.
II. To draw together (pucker up) like the mouth of a p.: astringo, contrăho, 3: to p. the brow (Shaksp.), astringere frontem, Mart. 11, 40; contrahere frontem, Cic. Clu. 26, fin.; supercilia contrahere, Quint. 11, 3, 79: to p. the lips, astringere labra, Quint. 11, 3 (prop. to close, in silence: but it may be used by analogy).