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===Ancient Greece=== The classicist [[A. Y. Campbell]] set out to answer the question, "What...in ancient literature, are the uses of a wallet?" He deduced, as a Theocritean scholar, that "the wallet was the poor man's portable larder; or, poverty apart, it was a thing that you stocked with provisions."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=A. Y.|title=The Boy, the Grapes, and the Foxes|journal=The Classical Quarterly|date=April 1931|volume=25|issue=2|page=91 |doi=10.1017/S0009838800013501|jstor=637006 |s2cid=171946559 |author-link=A. Y. Campbell}}</ref> He found that sometimes a man may be eating out of it directly but the most characteristic references allude to its being "replenished as a store", not in the manner of a [[lunch basket]] but more as a [[survival pack]].
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