feminina sunt…‘pellex9’ ‘carex10,’ βουτομων[1]11… Alia…masculina sunt: …‘culex12,’ ‘pollex13’ .. ‘murex14,’ ‘cortex15’… ‘ueruex16’ …masculinum est. Iuuenalis in I:
et elixi17 uerbecis labra comedit.
P. 69a
Et filicem curuis inuisam4 pascit aratris.
‘clasendix5’ quod significat concham qua signum6 tegitur. ..‘haec matrix7,’ ‘cornix8,’ ‘lodix9’…natrix10… Lucanus in VIIII:
Potest tamen hoc et figurate ad serpentem13 uideri redditum14, quod etiam15 feminino genere profertur, ut idem :
hinc maxima serpens
Pithon16,
sicut :
Praeneste sub ipsa17
9: mertrech ꝉ tudrachtaid ꝉ ben imtha .i. arindí dodúrget innafiru doǽtrud friu ꝉ do debuid 10: nomen féiuir 11: .i, damthóbae 12: cuil 13: orddu lámae 14: cocuir[2] 15: rusc 16: molt 17: bruithi l ·
P. 69a
1: brecc[3] 2: .i. nomen holeris ⁊ quando radix meccon prodvcit · ra · 3: sail ꝉ fit salio salix a se reliqua 4: miscsich[4] 5: .i. aesc[5] .i. combad argair aicnid adrímed insuidiguth 6: .i. rind .i. quia nomen sideris cancer et fit in medio conchae · · 7: mátharlach 8: adircliu 9: sléic ꝉ ruamnae ꝉ diol[6] 10: tonnátech 11: ind nathirsin 12: élnithid 13: .i. aacomol frisan ainmm nád ḟil hi coibgi acht hifóetsecht .i. serpens 14: accomoltae 15: cid 16: issed aainmm 17: fon praeneste sin
9. a harlot or exciter or concubine: because they excite the men to fornicate with them, or to quarrel. 10. name of a grass. 11. i.e. ‘ox-cutting’ (βούτομον).
P. 69a
1. speckled. 2. i.e. the name of a vegetable, and when it means radix ‘a root’ it lengthens the ra. 5. i.e. a shell-fish, i.e. so he would reckon the position for shortness of nature[7]. 6. i.e. a constellation. 9. ..(?) or haircloth (?) or..[8]? 10. poisonous. 11. that snake. 13. i.e. its connexion with the noun which is not in the context, but is understood i.e. serpens (uiolator). 14. connected. 16. this is its name. 17. under that (city of) Praeneste.
- ↑ leg. βούτομον
- ↑ leg. corcuir
- ↑ the glossator mistakes uarix for uarius
- ↑ MS. miscich
- ↑ cf. est concha aesc, Leyd. Prise. 161. KZ. xxxv. 152
- ↑ the meaning of these words is obscure: lodix ‘ornamentum muliebre,’ Corpus Gl. Lat. v. 506
- ↑ i.e. e must be short even before the double consonant
- ↑ sleic is rendered by ‘soap’ in Laws iv. 318