PERA, dim. PERULA, (phra), 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). One woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff and wallet from the column of Theodosius, formerly at Constantinople (Menestrier, Description de la Col. Hist. Par. 1702, pl.16).

William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London: John Murray, 1875), p 886.