Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Capsula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CAP'SULA. Diminutive of CAPSA; a small box for books, or other things (Catull. lxviii. 36.); hence the expression homo totus de capsula (Seneca, Ep., 115.), a fop, or, as we also say, one who looks as if he had just come out of a band-box.