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Non-Biblical Glosses and Scholia.

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

…‘hic uarix¹,’ ‘radix².’ Excipitur ‘haec salix³’..

Et filicem curuis inuisam⁴ pascit aratris.

‘clasendix⁵’ quod significat concham qua signum⁶ tegitur. ..‘haec matrix⁷,’ ‘cornix⁸,’ ‘lodix⁹’…natrix¹⁰… Lucanus in VIIII:

Et natrix¹¹ uiolator¹² aquae.

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.

1. leg. βούτομον
2. leg. corcuir
3. the glossator mistakes uarix for uarius
4. MS. miscich
5. cf. est concha aesc, Leyd. Prise. 16¹. KZ. xxxv. 152
6. the meaning of these words is obscure: lodix ‘ornamentum muliebre,’ Corpus Gl. Lat. v. 506
7. i.e. e must be short even before the double consonant
8. sleic is rendered by ‘soap’ in Laws iv. 318