I have been idly looking through the\u00a0section of Festus for the letter ‘M’ — the first book preserved in the damaged manuscript.\u00a0 Here are a few extracts.\u00a0 Perhaps others will find these\u00a0interesting also.<\/p>\n
\nMINOR DELOS.\u00a0 This name is given to Puzzuoli, because at one time Delos was the greatest commercial centre\u00a0in the whole world.\u00a0 It was then replaced by Puzzuoli, previously known in Greek as \u0394\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u1f77\u03b1.\u00a0 From this Lucilius has said: Inde Dicaearcheum populos, Delumque minorem (Whence the peoples of Dicaearchia and the little Delos).<\/em><\/p>\n
\u00a0MIRACULA.\u00a0 This word, which we apply today to things deserving of admiration, was only given by the ancients to hideous things. [ref]i.e. monstrosities, prodigies, rather than marvels.[\/ref]<\/p>\n
MISCELLIONES.\u00a0 Those who have no certain opinions, but are of varied and mixed judgements.<\/p>\n
MIRACIDION. First adolescence.<\/p>\n
MEDDIX is the title of a magistrate among the Oscans.\u00a0 Ennius says, Summus ibi capitur meddix, occiditur alter<\/em>.[ref]The senior magistrate (Meddix)\u00a0was captured there, the other was killed.[\/ref]<\/p>\n
MEDITRINALIA.\u00a0 This is the origin of this word.\u00a0 It was the custom among the Latin peoples that, on the day when one sampled the new wine for the first time, to say: Vetus novum vinum bibo, veteri novo morbo medeor<\/em>.[ref]Old, I drink the new wine;\u00a0from the old wine I would acquire a new illness.[\/ref]\u00a0 From the same words is formed the name of the goddess Meditrina, whose celebrations were called Meditrinalia.<\/p>\n
MEDITERREA.\u00a0 Sisenna considers this form as preferable to mediterranea<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MELO, alternative name for the Nile.<\/p>\n
MEGALESIA.\u00a0 Games in honour of the Great Goddess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I will look some more at this later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been idly looking through the\u00a0section of Festus for the letter ‘M’ — the first book preserved in the damaged manuscript.\u00a0 Here are a few extracts.\u00a0 Perhaps others will find these\u00a0interesting also. MINOR DELOS.\u00a0 This name is given to Puzzuoli, because at one time Delos was the greatest commercial centre\u00a0in the whole world.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[699,889,1362],"class_list":["post-10274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-festus","tag-information-access","tag-pompeius-festus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}