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Or koXokvvÓg Or koXokwvrg, from xóxos, rounded off, truncated, the reverse of oblong. 
The etymological remark, * rotunditas coloquintis nomen dedit," indicates some knowl- 
edge of Greek on the part of the author, or of the source from which he drew. Cf. 
Suidas: oXox/vr9: papirn. Kai mapowwa* xodoxvvtns vyvecrepos. — The reading usualis 
seems to be the true one, in the sense of common, ordinary. I should prefer the 
 vasualis of the Cod. Ricc. if there were any other authority for the word. 
10. Classica. The quotation from Virgil is in Aen. 7, 637: “ Classica iamque so- 
nant; it bello tessera signum." Besides this, and a few other poetic passages, there 
is no instance of classicum meaning the instrument, with the exception of Pseudo- 
Asconius to Divin. Verr. 17: “Sed quia hic in classe dixit, possumus intelligere ad 
hoc symphoniacos capi solere, ut in classe pugnantibus classicum canant: unde ipsi 
tibiae classis nomen est positum classicum." 
ll. Sinaxis. This is, of course, the Greek cvvafis, and should therefore be written 
synaxis. I know of no instance of the word being used in the sense of hora con- 
veniendi. ; : 
12. Anaglifi or anaglifa. While the Cod. Vat. gives the correct definition, the 
Cod. Ricc. approaches nearer to the correct form of the word. The word is from the 
Greek avayrwgpr, embossed work, and avayħvġos, embossed. The adjective dvdyrvda 
being sometimes used substantively * for avayAvdy, I infer from the definition celaturae 
(plural), that the genuine text is anaglypha. In the later Latinity, the substantive 
anaglypha (dvayWg) occurs, as well as the adjective anaglyphus. — 
13. Musach. This is undoubtedly the Hebrew word :]D32. Both manuscripts 
are evidently wrong in the word sababi ; it should be sabati, "30 JOY, the porch 
of the sabbath ; or, as the English version has it, “the covert for the sabbath.” Cf 
2 Kings xvi 18. I know of no other passage in which the custom of the kings 
of Israel depositing alms in this porch when entering the temple . is mentioned. The 
article is therefore of interest to Jewish antiquarians.. 
14. Carpasinus. The word is probably identical with the Greek xaprdcwos, made 
of fine Spanish flax (cf. Strab. 7, 294: xapracivas éparridas hike pl eae) and 
signifies here the color of this flax. - 
15. Lurica or luria. The text, in both manuscripts, is andoubledly corrupt. I 
entertain no doubt that the correct reading is lorica. In the last clause, the Cod. Ricc. 
seems to have in part the better reading; incedentes, if not indispensable, rendering 
* Cf. Isid. 19, 14: “ Anaglyfa, quod superius sint sculpta. Graeci enim ¿vo sursum, yAvpyy sculpturam 
dicunt, id est sursum sculpta.” 
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