bulga

• a leathern knapsack, bag: bulgas Galli sacculos scorteos appellant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 35 Müll.: bulga est folliculus omnis, quam et crumenam veteres appellarunt: et est sacculus ad bracchium pendens, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 78 (Sat. 2, 16, and 6, 1); Varr. ap. Non. 78, 2 (Sat. Men. 61, 3).—
• II Humorously, the womb, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 78, 14 (Sat. 26, 36).

BULGAa leathern bag or pouch, carried on the arm, and used as a purse (Lucil. and Varro ap. Non. p. 78; Festus, s. v., who says that the word is Gallic). For a similar bag hung on the arm of a husbandman and containing seed (πήρα σπερμοφόρος, Anth. P. 6.104), see Mus. Borbonico, 12.47.

(Keltic). A small leathern bag which was carried on the arm ( Non. s. v. p. 78, ed. Mercer), in the same manner as the modern reticule, by travellers, who used it as a money bag (Lucil. Sat. vi. p. 20, 1 ed. Gerlach; Varro ap. Non. l. c.); and by farmers, as a pouch, containing the seed at sowing time (the πήρα σπερμοφόρος of the Greek Anthology), to which use the example here given was applied; it is borne by a figure furnished with various implements of husbandry on a beautiful silver tazza of the Neapolitan Museum (Mus. Borb. xii. 47).