marsupium

marsūpĭum (-suppium), ii, n., = μαρσύπιον,

• a pouch, purse (ante- and postclass.): curam marsupii habere, Varr. ap. Non. 142, 1: nummi aurei in marsupio, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 26 (1313): quom inspicio marsupium, id. Men. 2, 1, 29 (254): exenterare, to empty, id. Ep. 2, 2, 3 (183); Prud. Psych. 600; Alcim. 6, 311.

marsūpium u. marsuppium, iī, n. (μαρσίπιον, μαρσιππεῖον), das Geldsäckchen, der Geldbeutel, die Börse, Plaut. Cas. 490; Epid. 185 G.; rud. 547. Varro sat. Men. 39. Prud. psych. 600. Hieron. epist. 60, 11. Vulg. gen. 43, 22 u. prov. 1, 14. Alcim. Avit. poëm. 6, 311: distenta aureis nummis marsupia, Salv. de gub. dei 1, 2, 10: inspicere marsuppium, Plaut. Men. 254: alcis marsuppium exenterare, Plaut. Epid. 511: illae maritimae piscinae potius marsuppium domini exinaniunt quam implent, Vano r. r. 3, 17, 2. – ➳ Nbf. marsippium, Varro r. r. 3, 17, 2 Keil.

marsūpĭum (14) (-ppium), ĭī, n. (μαρσύπιον), bourse : Pl. Cas. 490 ; Rud. 547 ; Varro Men. 391.

marsupium , ii. n.
錢褡。荷包。

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MARSUPIUM

MARSU´PIUM(μαρσύπιον, βαλάντιον), a purse. (Non. Marcellus, s. v.; Varro, de Re Rust. 3.17;--Plaut. Men. 2.1, 29; 2.3, 33, 35; 5.7, 47; Poen. 3.5, 37; Rud. 5.2, 26;--Xen. Conviv. 4.2) The word is a diminutive of μάρσιπος, a bag, which occurs in Xen. Anab. 4.3, 11, as a clothes-bag, equivalent to στρωματόδεσμος. Marsupium, therefore, is strictly a small bag or pouch.

The purse used by the ancients was commonly a small leathern bag, and was often closed by being drawn together at the mouth (σύσπαστα βαλάντια, Plat. Symp. p. 190 D). Mercury is commonly represented holding one in his hand, of which the annexed woodcut from an intaglio in the Stosch Collection at Berlin presents an example. For journeys and campaigns, the safer girdlepurse (zona) was used. (See also CRUMENA, ZONA.)

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Marsupium

(μαρσύπιον). A money-bag or purse, often represented in ancient works of art in the hands of Mercury, the god of gain (cf. Plaut. Rud. v. 2, 26).