Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Museum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MUSE'UM and MUSI'UM (Μουσεῖον). Originally signified a temple, seat, or haunt of the Muses; thence an establishment instituted by Ptolemy Philadelphus, at Alexandria, for the promotion of learning and the support of literary and scientific persons who lived there at the public expense (Suet. Claud. 42. Spart. Hadr. 20.); and the Latin writers also gave the same name to a grotto, or place in their villas where they used to retire and enjoy intellectual conversation. Plin. H. N. xxvi. 42. Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 9. Compare Cic. Leg. ii. 1.