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Article by James Yates, M.A., F.R.S.,
on p886 of

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875.

PERA, dim. PE′RULA, (πήρα), a wallet, made of leather, worn suspended at the side by rustics and by travellers to carry their provisions (Mart. XIV.81) and adopted in imitation of them by the Cynic philosophers (Diog. Laert. VI.13; Brunck, Anal. I.223, II.22, 28; Auson. Epig. 53).​a The preceding woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff and wallet from the column of Theodosius, formerly at Constantinople (Menestrier, Descriptionº de la Col. Hist. Par. 1702, pl.16).

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Thayer's Note:

a shepherds and philosophers — the word was also regularly used of a woman's handbag: see Cicero's remark recorded by Quintilian (Inst. Or. VIII.III.54) and the translator's footnote there, with yet a further meaning and reference.

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