Note 109 — Chapter V · CUNNILINGUES

Quintilian, Instit. orat., I., ch. 1: “He can learn the interpretation of the occult languages, what the Greeks call ****** Alcuin, Grammatica, p. 2086, in Putschius’ Collection: Glossa is the interpretation of a verb or a noun; e.g. catus is the same thing as doctus.” On this occasion it may be permitted to the Director of the Court-Library at Coburg to state, that this library contains a remarkable copy of the collection of Putschius, by the hand of John Scheffer, who died at Upsala in 1679, beginning thus: “The notes to be found in this volume, on the margin of books IV. and V., of Priscian, have been made after a very ancient and most beautifully written manuscript, in which a number of traces of primitive Latin orthography are found, as for instance: dirivare for derivare, peneultimus and antepeneultimus for penultimus and antepenultimus, Oratius for Horatius, etc.”