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4 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, ERFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
lacuna) by 'flodae/ pulvinar by templum, hicar'^ by 'steor,' and
had complicated matters by stating the declension of the last
(lucar, lucaris). When his marginalia were excerpted for glossary
purposes (or for 'glossae collectae'), the excerptor was not sure
whether templum referred to pulvinar or to lucar. Here is the
result (C. G. L. v 369, 28-31): Lucar vel pulvinar: templum,
Laquear: first, Lucaris: steor, Lacunar: Jlodae.
To return to the M-chapter, if we take the Epinal MS. for
our guide, we get a far more complete presentation of the Phocas
batch (I quote from Sweet's facsimile, correcting, as before, the
miswritten Latin): Merx: 7nei'ze (Phoc. 412, 2), Mulio: horsthegn
hecid
(Phoc. 418, 8), Mango: mengio (Phoc. 413, 23), Mugil :
(Phoc. 414, 20), Matrix: quidam (Phoc. 421, 8), Muria: faex olei
(Phoc. 427, 21), Meio, minxi, a mingere dictum (Phoc. 434, 13),
Mapalia: casae pastorum (Phoc. 428, 13), Murex, muricis, a
lapide (Phoc. 420, 30), Magistratus, senatus (Phoc. 420, 1),
Mergus: scalfr (Phoc. 419, 28), Mango: negotiator (Phoc. 413,
23), Merx, mercis, a mercando, non merces, mercedis (Phoc.
412, 2), Mars, Martis : Tiig (Phoc. 411, 33), Mas, maris, a marito
dictum (Phoc. 411, 83), Mus, muris: mus (Phoc. 411, 33). The
fuller version removes all irregularity of order. The excerptor
is shewn to have been perfectly consistent. He began at the
beginning of Phocas' Noun-lists and went actually as far as the
Verb-pages (near the end of the grammar), culling the verb
meio as his last
gloss. Then he retraced his steps, back to the
beginning. In the first half of his course he selected the English
in the second he took the same Noun
interpretation of mango ;
with its Latin interpretation.
That so patent a thing as this should have remained un-
noticed by the many workers at these glossaries is hardly
credible. Possibly they discovered it, but suppressed their dis-
covery until they
every item of the EE Glossary
should find themselves able to refer each and
to its source in the same con-
vincing way. For indeed it is convincing. There can be no
^ Since lucar was a tax, I assume that Ludaris : steor in EE corresponds to
Lucar: vectigal in Leid. and that Ags. steor is Germ. Steuer. If 'steer' and not
'tax' is the necessary sense, I can only suppose that the annotator of the MS.
of Phocas had added a reference to Lucas : bos.