Saturday, March 09, 2024

 

An Incorrect Reference

Robert Maltby, A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1991), p. 572 (s.v. sodalis):
sodalis, -is m. FEST. 297 (suppl. ex PAUL. FEST. 296) sodalis <quidam dictos esse pu>tant, quod una s<ederent et essent;> alii, quod ex suo d<atis vesci soliti essent;> alii, quod inter se <invicem suade>rent, quod utile ess<et>. AUG. serm. 88,7 sodales dicti sunt, quod simul edant, quasi simul edales. ISID. orig. 10,245 sodales dicuntur qui ad symbolum convenire consueverunt, quasi suadentes.
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The reference to Augustine's Sermons is incorrect—for "AUG. serm. 88,7" read "AUG. serm. 138,7". Augustine repeats the bogus etymology in his Sermons 46.36:
Sodales enim dicuntur, tamquam unius convivii. Latina lingua sic dicti sunt sodales, quasi simul edales, eo quod simul edant.

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