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stances. Ter. Adelph, 4 24; Istaec jam penes vos psaltria est! Is that dancing 
A girl in your house? S. Ellam intus. She is within, &c. &c. The secondary mean- 
ing needs no illustration. From Pen, with its signification of end, came Penis 
and Peniculus, a tail, and many other words. 
Poprna, “a cook-shop, an eating-house,” derived by scholars from Pora, the minis- 
ter who struck the sacrifical victim with a mallet, and who was supposed, on au- 
thority which I cannot tind, to vend the flesh of victims. By an edict of Nzro, 
“* nothing cooked except pulse and herbs was allowed to be sold in Popinis,” al- 
though previously every kind of obsonium was exposed to sale in such places ; 
and Trsertus, during a dearth, forbad even pastry-work to be sold in cook-shops. 
On the whole, the Popinz of Rome appear to have united our eating-house and 
pastry-shop. The root appears to have been the Cum. Pobi, “ to bake to roast au 
Pobi bara, “ to bake bread ;” i bobi golwyn, “ to roast a joint.” (Vid. Ow. Dict.) 
Poban, “ an oven,” Pobur, Pobwr and Pobid, “ a baker.” 
Poprutus, the people, the community, Plebs (says Autus Grxuius,? on the authority 
of a competent witness, Arrius Capito) differt a populus, quia hoc nomine 
omnis pars civitatis omnesque ejus ordines continentur, Plebs vero ea dicitur in 
qua gentes civium patriciz non insunt.” The old form of writing the word was 
Popolus, Cum. Pobol, and contracted Pobl, not unlike the Etruscan form, 
Puplu, as seen in old inscriptions. The root is Pawb and Pob, (vid. Ow. Dict.) 
* every body, all persons.” Pob ac un, omnis et unus, “ one and all.” “ Pob-un,” 
every one. 
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Prettom or Precium, the money value of an article ; apparently the general name 
at an early period for the precious metals. Even in later times, it seems to have 
retained this primary meaning. Thus Horace, alluding to Jupiter’s transmu- 
tation into gold, = 
** Converso in pretium deo.” 
And Ovip: 
“‘ In pretio pretium est, dat census honores.” 
And still stronger : 
*< Argentum felix, omnique beatius auro, 
Quod pretium fuerit quum rude, numen erit.” 
Now Pres is in Cum. copper, the only metal which the early Romans coined into 
money. It is also to be remarked that, to this day, especially in North Wales, 
the word Pres is limited to copper coin. Pris, Anglice price, is closely connected 
both in spelling and pronunciation with it. 
Pro-cervs, long, compounded of the preposition, and Cérus, unknown. It is the 
1 Suetonius in Ner. cap. 16. 2 Lib. x. cap. 20. 
3 Lib. iii. od. 16. ver. 8. 
4 Fast. v. 217. Lib. ii. Ex. Pont. Ep. 8. v. 5. 
