← Table of contents
The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 710 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Crumenâ. Properly "a bag or reticule to hang on the arm;" a satchel to be hung over a boy's shoulder: then a purse suspended from the girdle, like the "gypciére" of the Middle Ages:

"If thy throat widen as thy pockets shrink." Gifford.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings