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PART I 11
import-ant thing for our purposes is to mark off ^4-5
the one hand and § 35 on the other. It is the collection (or
1 lections) represented by § 35 which was used by the compilers
EE and Corpus ;
whereas the collection (or collections) represented
by ^ 4-5 was unknown to them. And this suggests the
possibility that ^ 4-5 were a St Gall addition, if St Gall was the
birthplace of the Leyden Glossa^}^ (Of course the few English
interpretations would be natural there.)
While the Phocas-material used by EE and Corpus is about
equal to the Phocas-material used by Leid., there is a great pre-
in Leid. of Rufinus-material. The eleven books of
ponderance
Rufinus do not contain very man}' pages, and the 306 glosses of
§ 35, an average of nearly thirty glosses for each book, do not leave
many of the difficult words unexplained. One exception is pullulantibus
(iv, 30, 1 innumeris haeresibus ubique pullulantibus
'countless heresies sprouting up everj-where '). Rufinus is less
generously treated in the EE and Corpus Glossaries. In the
F-section we have a fairly regular batch in Epinal (9 A 10-18 =
C. G. L. V 360, 5-14) : Fasces (Ruf i, 7, 13), Fovet (Ruf. i, 8, 11),
Fasces (Ruf ii, 5,3),F(ac)essat (Ruf. iii,36,9), Fisco (Ruf. vi,2,13),
Fluitans(Rufviii,14,ll),Fiscella(0,Physica(?),Fucus(Ruf.xi,25),
Functus (Ruf xi, 32). And the I-section offers a batch of quite
respectable size, beginning at Ep. 11 E 13 Inoleverant and ending
at Ep. 11 E 25 Impetigo ( - C. G. L. v 365, 25-37). The second
item of the batch is the well-known puzzle, Indruticans: turaes-
tendi. Have we here-the missing explanation of the difficult word
note in the
just mentioned, pullulantibus ( Was the marginal
Rufinus codex Pullulans : infruticans, wraestendi i And was the
interpretation separated by
preted ? Undoubtedly /Vu^i'ca/js
'a sprout,' '
some accident fi-om the word inter-
*
sprouting,' derived hovafrutex
a burgeon,' would be a very natural word with which
to interpret pidlulam. The farmers' word stolones (whence the
name of a Roman family) appears in some glossaries thus (e.g.
Ep. 25 E 2)
: Stolones : frutices radicum arborum. It is not im-
possible that infruticans
that this '
mumpsimus
'
had been miswritten indruticans and
cheated Aldhelm himself (cf. Napier
Old English Glosses s.v.) ; but some prefer to find in indruticans
a verb in actual (late Latin) use, connected with Italian drudo,
a gallant.