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Candelabrvm Theodosianvm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. L. W. Laistner
M. L. W. Laistner
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University of London, King's College
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In a recent article1 mention was made of a MS. (Cod. Vat. Reg. 215) from which Goetz printed selections in Vol. V. (pp. 583–6) of the (Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, and one of its entries was discussed. This so-called glossary, which, as was indicated in the article in question, appears in reality to be a collection of notes, arranged in alphabetical order, from the lectures delivered by Martin the Irishman at Laon in the middle of the ninth century, is preserved in another MS. now in the British Museum2 (Royal 15 A XVI. foil. 74r sqq.). This MS. was not used by Goetz. On fol. 81 appears the following entry:

‘Moechus est adulter alterius t[h]orum furtim polluens; inde a m <o>echo dicitur m[o]echanica ars, ingeniosa atque subtilissima et p<a>ene quomodo facta uel administrata sit inuisibilis in tantum, ut etiam uisum conspicientium quodam modo furetur, dum non facile penetratur eius ingeniositas quali ingenio artis candelabrum illud Theodosianum factum legitur.’

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1922 , pp. 107
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1922

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References

1 ‘Anaphus,’ by Thomson, H. J. [Class. Rev. 34, p. 34)Google Scholar .

2 I am indebted to Professor W. M. Lindsay for drawing my attention to this MS. and the entry under consideration.

3 Above the last words is written in smaller letters, but apparently by the same hand, ‘Theo dosius imperator fuit in Constantinopoli.’

4 The opening words down to ‘polluens’ recall Isidore, , Etym. 10, 10Google Scholar .

5 Sozom, . praef. in Eccl. Hist. (ed. Hussey, ) 5Google Scholar. I.

6 Paus. I, 26, 6–7.

7 Plutarch, de Def. Orac. 2 (= 4IOB).