178 NOTES TO THE 
1, 88. Vocibus. See line 243 
1.90. The line, Inter prandendum sit sepé parumque biben- 
dum, is placed here in all the old editions, but as it is repeated 
at line 110, which is more appropriate to it, I have omitted it 
here. 
1, 96. Ethicis, that is ¢Otctxoic, i. e. consumptis, et mace- 
ratis, ns habentibus febrem ethicam. Vill. Nov. Hectic 
person 
L ae. Grossus, that i is, produces gross humours, Quod ex 
grossiori et terrestriori parte lactis sit, Vill. Nov. From grosso, 
Ital. from the Latin crassus. 
1. 105. Cheese is here personified, and addresses the reader. 
These lines appear thus in some editions, the last two are 
found in some manuscripts, 
Expertis reor esse ratum, quia commoditate 
Languenti stomacho caseus addit opem. 
Caseus ante cibum ith si Fiera alvus, 
Si constipetur, t 
8. Si post sumatur, 
- line at first seems canal but it is RAS by Villa 
Nova to mean, that ‘cheese perfects the meal if taken last, 
by prom oting lapel ” by causing the Sisds to pica where 
igestion is active, that is, the bottom of the stomach. This 
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loco ingestum setesoree os mentricnts, <8 wrote dvopstiay 
Villa es and other commentators, understand the first nut 
to be the nutmeg, the second the walnut, and the third deadly 
nut, to be the nut of a cross-bow, or the nut mechel, which is 
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