Note 50 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

oleum: Largesses of oil by Caesar and Nero are recorded by Suet., Caes., 38, Nero, 12 (Jahn).—artocreas: ἀρτόκρεας = visceratio, ‘bread-meat’ for ‘bread-and-meat.’ Outside of the numerals, such copulative compounds (dvandva in Sanskrit) are rare, and chiefly late. Comp. suovetaurilia, νυχθήμερον, the famous word of seventy-nine syllables in Ar., Eccl., 1169, and Mod. Gr. ἀνδρόγυνον, ‘man-and-wife.’ Some consider artocreas a kind of meat-pasty.—popello: 4, 15.