The corpus record — Latin

capsula

capsula · f

a small box

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

capsŭla — Lewis & Short

capsŭla, ae, f.dim.capsa,

I a small box or chest, Fab. Pictor. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 14; Cat. 68, 36; Plin. 30, 11, 30, § 102.—Hence, homo de capsulā, one who is excessively neat, nice: juvenes barbā et comā nitidi, de capsulā toti, quite from the bandbox, Sen. Ep. 115, 2.

In the wild

capsulam Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 3.p2
capsula Catullus, Carmina elegies.68.36
capsulam Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.18.p1
capsulam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.15.14
capsula Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.115.2.p2

Where it came from

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