The corpus record — Latin

sacculus

sacculus · m

a little sack

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Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

saccŭlus — Lewis & Short

saccŭlus, i, m.dim.saccus,

I a little sack or bag (not in Cic.); for filtering wine, Lucil. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; for grain, App. M. 9, p. 232 et saep.; esp. for money, a purse, Plin. 2, 51, 52, § 137: pleno cum turget sacculus ore, Juv. 14, 138; 11, 27; Mart. 5, 39, 7; 11, 3, 6; Dig. 16, 2, 1, § 36; Vulg. Prov. 7, 20.—Hence, comic.: sacculus Plenus aranearum, i. e. empty, Cat. 13, 8.

In the wild

sacculus Catullus, Carmina lyrics.13.8
sacculo Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 19.1
sacculo Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.9
sacculos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.28
sacculus Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.138
sacculo Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.18.p1

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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