Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Scodra, Scrinium

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Scrinium

A circular box or case for holding books, papers, etc. It must have closely resembled the capsa, yet Pliny (Pliny H. N. xvi. 84) distinguishes between them; whence it has been surmised that the scrinium was a capsa divided into compartments. See Capsa.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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