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stances. Ter. Adelph. 4 24 ; Istasc jam penes vos psaltria est ! Is that dancing 

 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. 



Popina, " a cook-shop, an eating-house," derived by scholars from Pop a, the minis- 

 ter who struck the sacrifical victim with a mallet, and who was supposed, on au- 

 thority which I cannot find, to vend the flesh of victims. By an edict of Nero, 

 " 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 Tiberius, during a dearth, forbad even pastry-work to be sold in cook-shops. 

 On the whole, the Popinas 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 ;" 

 Pobi bara, " to bake bread ;" i bobi golwyn, " to roast a joint." (Vid. Ow. Diet.) 

 Poban, " an oven,' 1 Pobur, Pobwr and Pobid, " a baker." 



Populus, the people, the community, Plebs (says Aulus Gellius, 2 on the authority 

 of a competent witness, Ateids Capito) dhTert a populus, quia hoc nomine 

 omuls pars civitatis omnesque ejus ordines continentur, Plebs vero ea dicitur in 

 qua gentes civium patriciae non insunt." The old form of writing the word was 

 Popolus, Cum. Pobol, and contracted Pobi, not unlike the Etruscan form, 

 Puplu, as seen in old inscriptions. The root is Pawb and Pob, (vid. Ow. Diet.) 

 " every body, all persons." Pob ac un, omnis et unus, " one and all." " Pob-un," 

 every one. 



Prettum 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, 3 alluding to Jupiter's transmu- 

 tation into gold, 



" Converso in pretium deo." 

 And Ovid : 



" In pretio pretium est, dat census honores." 

 And still stronger : 



4 " 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-cerus, long, compounded of the preposition, and Cerus, unknown. It is the 



1 Suetonius in Ner. cap. 10. 2 Lib. x. cap. 20. 



■"> Lib. iii. od. 16. ver. 8. 



4 Fast. v. 217- Lib. ii. Ex. Font. Ep. 8. v. 5. 



