8 PETRONIUS ARBITER 
nitra provincia may possibly be’ an attempt to render in Latin what Strabo, 17, 803, 23, 
calls vous verpuoTAs Or veTpLOris. 
2. Kyrogrillus or Cyrogrillus is undoubtedly a corruption of bone är. It is the 
porcupine, hystrix, which resembles the hedgehog, ericius. If we except the expres- 
sion *simile muri vel (et) urso," the description, though brief, is correct. Cf. Plin. 
Nat. Hist. 8, 35, 58, 125: “ Hystrices generat India et Africa spina contectas ac erina- 
ceorum genere, sed hystrici longiores aculei et cum intendit cutem missilibus ora 
urguentium figit canum et paulo longius iaculatur; hibernis autem se mensibus 
condit, quae natura multis et ante omnia ursis,” This last clause of Pliny furnishes, 
perhaps, an explanation of the expression “ simile muri vel urso.” If we take simile 
in the sense of similarity of habit, as well as similarity of form, the expression may be 
considered the substance of the definition, which, in the author from whom Petronius 
copied, was probably more full. e 
9. Caparis. The passage of Plautus occurs in Curculio, 1. 1, 90: * Voltisne olivas 
aut pulmentum aut capparim." ‘The second quotation from Martial occurs in 3, 
77, 5: * Capparin et putri cepas halece natantes." The expression * quae salitur" is 
explained by Dioscorides, 2, 204: tapuyevetas 98 d kavXos aurís Kal d kapzrós eis Bpdow. 
4. Hepicima or Epirima. The writing of the Cod. Ricc. contains the elements 
of the true reading, viz. Epirima, which is to be corrected into Epinicia, ém/«a, the 
letters rim containing as many strokes as nici. The word is used in the sense ascribed 
to it here, in Soph. Elect. 692: rovrov éveyxov mavra ramwixta. | 
5. Evedre. 1 follow the reading of the Cod. Vat. It is easy to understand how 
the copyist of the Cod. Ricc. should change de oratore into et actoris, but not how the 
words nomen acceperunt crept in. If the words de oratore be correct, the following in 
eadem exedra should be changed into in eam exedram. See De Orat. 3, 5,17: “in 
eam exedram venisse." 
6. Scalptura. There is evidently in both manuscripts a mixing up of two articles, 
the one on sculptura, the other on histrio, the second being incomplete. The form 
histriaca, which both manuscripts have, for histrica, does not occur anywhere else. — — 
= ^. Mulsum. The quotation from Asin. of Plautus is 5, E 56: * Pueri plaudite et 
mi ob iactum cantharo mulsum date.” ` 
e Peribolus. Y have not found any passage in S nich the word, precisely in the 
- meaning given, occurs. Suidas gives the definition ó rás vgds. Strange to say, Vitru- 
vius does not use the term. 
: .9. Colog tintis. "The reading dedit, of the Cod. Ricc., in the last sentence, seems to 
be the true one. Coloquintis i is undoubtedly the Latinized form of the Grek oh éent 
