Note 51 — BOOK THE FIRST.

Footnote 51: (return) “Salted barley meal,”—Anthon; “whole barley,”—Voss; but Buttmann, Lexil. p. 454, in a highly amusing note, observes, “no supposition of a regular and constant distinction between the Greeks and Romans, the one using barley whole and the other coarsely ground, possible as the thing may be in itself, is to be entertained without the express testimony of the ancients.”