Thursday, January 19, 2023

 

An Unhealthy Diet

Persius 2.41-43 (tr. G.G. Ramsay):
You pray for strength of limb, and for a body that shall not fail you in old age.
Good; but your grand dishes and rich ragouts
forbid the gods to listen to you, and stay the hand of Jupiter.

poscis opem nervis corpusque fidele senectae.
esto age. sed grandes patinae tuccetaque crassa
adnuere his superos vetuere Iovemque morantur.
Oleg Nitikinski on line 42:
tuccetaque: tuccetum est, ut videtur, ius quoddam concretum (gelatinosum) frustulis carnis inditis1, genus cibi valde pingue2 ideoque valetudini adversum.

1 cf. 'tuceta apud Gallos Cisalpinos bubula dicitur caro condimentis quibusdam crassis oblita ac macerata, et ideo toto anno durat' Schol.; tuccetum: ζωµὸς παχύς Gloss. 2, 202, 53; tucca: κατάχυµα ζωµοῦ Gloss. 2, 202, 52; 'glaciali conditione tucceta' Arnob. nat. 2, 42 (CSEL 4, 82). cave Iacobo André, L'alimentation, p. 143, auctori alioqui probatissimo, hac de re credas.

2 cf. ῾adipatum: tuccetosum vel crassum' Gloss. Sal. non erit absurdum Martialis lusum huc afferre: 'non est, Tucca, satis quod es gulosus: / et dici cupis et cupis videri.' Mart. 12, 41.
Commentum Cornuti (Clausen and Zetzel p. 58):



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