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84 THE CORPUS, EPINAL, EEFURT AND LEYDEN GLOSSARIES
262, 19 Ad incitam: ad extremam fortunam (ps.-Plac. 6, 7 Ad
incitam: ad extremam fortunam).
The true Placidus glossary seems to be composed of notes
taken from the lectures of a professor in North Africa whose
lectures were far from deserving the immortality they have thus
achieved (Journ. Phil, xxxiv 264). A good example of his stu-
pidity
is his treatment of the Old Latin word meditulliiim 'a
knoll,' which he actually connects with the verb meditor 'I study'
(C G. L. V 32, 4 locus in quo aliqua meditantur sive ad docendum
sive ad discendum). Without a doubt this is the item of Erf^
(310, 44) Meditullium: in quocumque applicaverit
loco ante ves-
perum 'any place one studies in before the evening '(i.e. at evening
one would go indoors and study by lamplight). And the curious
Gestatio: ipsa res (298, 7) becomes intelligible from the (pre-
sumable) Placidus pair (71, 24) Gestatiuncula : res minuta, (Ges-
tatio: ipsa res).
Of the residue the same may be said as of the residue in the
first portions of the EE Glossary: that since the sources used
have not supplied enough material to form 'clusters,' a mere
mention of them must suffice. And really they are more or less
the same sources as in EE. The first item of the whole glossary
is a Bible gloss:
Aptet vos: impleat vos (from Hebr. 13, 21 aptet vos in omni
bono),
and a large number of the sections shew isolated items from th^
same source.
An unmistakable Rufinus item is (291, 7):
Oedipia: obscena (from Ruf Eccl. Hist. 5, 1, 14 velut Thyestaeas
cenas et incesta Oedipia perpetrantes).
From the Latin translation of Clement's Recognitiones comes
(272, 25):
Broraum: sordem maris (Clem. Rec. 2, 2 nee ferre possem
bromum et molestiam maris).
From Orosius, e.g. (321, 3):
Pythii (Phithi MS.): poetici (Or. Hist. 6, 15, 13 Pythici
oraculi fides. With a variant reading poetici).