90 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



of Yale College, and Professor Hackett of Newton Theo- 

 logical School, in acknowledgment of their election into the 

 Academy. 



Dr. Charles Beck read a paper entitled : — 



Additions to Sophocles's Glossary of Later and Byzantine 



Greek. 



Dr. Beck introduced the subject of the SJdict of Diocletian, issued in 

 301, De Pretiis Rerum Venalium. After speaking briefly of the object, 

 the historical importance, and the discovery of six fragments (four 

 Latin and two Greek) of this document, he adverted to the philological 

 interest attaching more especially to the two Greek fragments, which 

 furnish over eighty words not yet included in Prof Sophocles's excel- 

 lent and scholarly work. Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek, and 

 fifteen which are used in the Edict in a form or meaning not given in 

 the Glossary. The following is a list of these words, accompanied by 

 a brief commentary. 



1. From the Fragment of Geronthrae in Laconia. 



1. 'Kkovtlov, 15, 17. The meaning of the word is made plain by the 

 addition jJVoi iida-n^. The word, which commonly signifies ^aye/m, evi- 

 dently has here the meaning of stick or pole for urging the cattle. 



2. 'AvrjXaros, 9, 6, not nailed, not provided icitli nails, a well-formed 

 Greek word, from rfkaros, nailed, from the noun t]\os, nail. 



3. 'Aop^iTos, 15, 23, not curved, a Latin-Greek w'ord, from 07-bis with 

 the alpha privativum. 



4. "Aa-rjuos, 17, 26, without stamp or 7na}-k. In the classical language 

 it is especially applied to gold and silver ; here to linen cloth. It ap- 

 pears, according to Mommsen, that the better kinds of flax were sub- 

 ject to a duty and marked with a stamp {(rrjua) ; the inferior quality 

 not being stamped. Suidas : aarjixos, ignobilis. 



5. 'Ao-ri'Xioj', 14, 4 ; the Latin hastile, the shaft or wooden part of a 

 spear. That the shaft alone is meant, is apparent from the adjective 

 Kpaveiov and the following item, 14, 5 ; da-TiKiov Is kovtov. 



6. 'A-v/^iSuroy, 15, 2^, joined. It is a correctly formed verbal adjec- 

 tive from the verb a\//'iSdco. 



7. BipcoTos, 15, 28. In Latin hirotus, two-wheeled. 



8. Bo'trtos, 8, 6, belonging to an ox, from /3oi/s. 



