Friday, May 19, 2023

 

A Ghost Word

Ronald Syme, "Names and Identities in Quintilian," in his Roman Papers, V (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 630-638 (at 632, on the rhetor Cartorius Proculus):
Festus cites him for the words 'procastria', 'topper', 'tentippellium'.14

14 Festus 225; 482; 500 (ed. Lindsay).
For tentippellium read tentipellium, meaning "A device for stretching skins or leather" (Oxford Latin Dictionary).

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