Peculium, peculij. Cic.Money or ware that the sernant hath by his maillers licence to traffike with. Also substance: riches in money or cattaile. A mans proper goodes. Al that one hath got by his labour and trauaile.Cui homini hodie peculi nummus non est plumbeus.Plaut.Which man hath not this day one penie worth of goodes.Cura peculi. Hor. Care to get riches.Conficere peculium, Vide CONFICIO.Castrense peculium. Pomponius. Goodes that one getteth in warres.
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pĕcūlĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [peculium], to give one something for one's self, as one's private property; hence, comic. in mal. part., Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 10.—Hence, pĕ-cūlĭātus. a, um, P. a., furnished with property of his own, that has private property.A.Lit.: servus, Dig. 21, 1, 18 fin.; 19, 1, 13.—B.Transf.1.Furnished, provided with money: bene peculiatus, Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1: libertus satis peculiatus, App. M. 10, 17.—2. In mal. part.: pulchre pensilibus peculiati, Auct. Priap. 53.
pĕcūlĭum, ii, n. [pecus], lit., property in cattle; hence, as in early times all property consisted of cattle, in gen., property.I.Lit.A. In gen.: peculi sui prodigi (servi), Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 19: cupiditas peculii, Cic. Par. 5, 2 fin.: cura peculi, Verg. E. 1, 33 Serv.; Hor. A. P. 330.—B. In partic., private property.1. What the master of the house saves and lays by, money laid by, savings, Dig. 32, 1, 77.—2. What a wife owns as her independent property, and over which her husband has no control, a private purse, paraphernalia, Dig. 23, 3, 9, 3.—3. That which is given by a father or master to his son, daughter, or slave, as his or her private property: frugi sum, nec potest peculium enumerari, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 91: adimere servis peculium, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 17; 1, 17, 5: filii, Liv. 2, 41; cf. Sen. Ep. 11, 1: Juliam uxorem peculio concesso a patre praebitisque annuis, fraudavit, Suet. Tib. 50: cultis augere peculia servis,
fees
, Juv. 3, 189.—4. Castrense, the private property of a son acquired by military service, with the consent of his father (profecticium), or by inheritance through his mother (adventicium); then called quasi castrense, Dig. 49, 17, 5 sqq.; Paul. Sent. 3, 4; cf. Dig. 37, 6, 1.—5. = membrum virile, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 92; id. Most. 1, 3, 96; Petr. S. 8; Lampr. Elag. 9; cf. peculiatus.—II.Trop., that which belongs to one's self, one's own.—Of a letter: sine ullo ad me peculio veniet?
without any thing for myself
, Sen. Ep. 12, 9.—Of the people of lsrael: erunt mihi, in die quā ego facio, in peculium, Vulg. Mal. 3, 17.