Monday, May 15, 2023
Meaningless Words
Plautus, Casina 347 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo, with his note):
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I wouldn't buy that kind of talk for total tripe.9Rudolf Helm, ed., Fabii Planciadis Fulgentii V.C. Opera (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1908), p. 117 (Expositio Sermonum Antiquorum ad Calcidium 20):
non ego istuc uerbum empsim tittibilicio.
9 According to Fulgentius (serm. ant. 117. 13–16 Helm), tittibilicium refers to dirty threads in weaving. Paul the Deacon (p. 504 Lindsay) thinks that the word has no meaning.
Tittiuilicium dici uoluerunt fila putrida quae de telis cadunt; ut Plautus in Cassina ait: 'Non ego hoc rerbum empsim tittiuilicio', id est re admodum uilissima. Nam et Marcus Cornutus in satyra sic ait: 'Tittiuiles Flacce do tibi'.Wallace M. Lindsay, ed., Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatu quae supersunt cum Pauli epitome (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1913), p. 504:
Tittibilicium nullius significationis est, ut apud Graecos βλίτυρι et σκινδαψός. Plautus (Cas. 347) „non ego istud verbum empsi cum tittibilicio.”See Pedro Redondo Reyes, "Nuevas consideraciones sobre las ἄσημοι φωναί: βλίτυρι, σκινδαψός, κνάξ et similia," Myrtia: Revista de Filología Clásica 31 (2016) 291-316.
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