cory 
Rev. J. H. Topp on some Fragments of 
“This uerbe sum hathe xiiij compoundes. 
At subter potis ab sum in inter de 
Super ob pre 
Pro simul adiungas ex et per teste perotto.”’* 
Then each compound is separately explained, viz., adsum, subtersum, possum, 
absum, insum, intersum, desum, supersum, presum, exsum ; after which the fol- 
lowing rule is given for fero: 
‘* Quot significationes habet fero ? 
Dico gero potior cupio fero significabit. 
Quot composita habet fero ? 
His componas ad ab ante cui ex quoque circu 
De dis in op pro pre post trans iungito sub re.” 
And then, as before, these compounds, affero, aufero, prafero, antefero, confero, 
effero, circumfero, defero, differo, infero, offero, profero, suffero, transfero, refero, 
are separately treated of, and each has a mnemonical verse to explain its use and 
signification. The verse on Deswm may be quoted as a specimen : 
“ Desum deficio signat simul et nocet obsum 
Deficiens terno vult poni resq3 negata 
5 Apte vult rectum solum ternum regit obsum.” 
That on Supersum is as follows : 
‘* Pro restat superest ternum dato sepeq3 nullum 
Hunce etiam prebet cum significabit abundo.” 
We may, therefore, infer, that the owner of the tablets had been writing some 
similar rules of grammar, but in a manner so unconnected that one can hardly 
help imagining that the imperfect traces of two or three different entries are 
mingled together in the words, or fragments of words, now visible. 
The next page of the second leaf (fig. 4) contains the following words: 
uer gerit at mirum caput omni 
mane canenum silua gerit fruc 
tum depellit frigus vesstum 
de quo vel de qua causa datur linga 
* Alluding to the ‘‘ Cornucopia sive Commentarii Linguz Latina” of Nicolaus Perottus. 
There is a fine copy of this work in the Library of Trinity College, printed at Venice, * Per Magis- 
trum Paganinum de paganinis brixiensem,” in the year 1489, folio. 
