Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Marsupium

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. 

MARSU'PIUM (μαρσύπιον). A purse for money (Varro, ap. Non. s. v. p. 141. Id. R. R. iii. 17. 3. Plaut. Rud. v. 2. 26.); often represented in works of art in the hands of Mercury, the god of gain, and more or less ornamented with tassels, &c. The example (Marsupium/1.1) is from a Pompeian painting.

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