Authority Cited: Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
Author name and dates: Claude Saumaise (1588-1653)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Salmasius/Saumaise cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Salmasius/Saumaise cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.] D. Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, notes several catalogue entries associated with Salmasius: 19 . . .Salmasii Florus, Amst. 1674; 240 Historiae Augustae scriptores Par. 1620; 566 Polyhistoria Salmasii, 2 t. 1629; 526 8. Salmosius [sic] de re-militari, &c.; 146 Salmasii opera 9 t. (Green found no record of publication of the Salmasii opera, and suggests that the "opera" might be volumes of miscellaneous works.)]
Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus. Claudius Salmasius Ex Veteribus Libris Recensuit, Et Librum Adjecit Notarum Ac Emendationum Quib. Adjunctae Sunt Notae Ac Emendationes Isaaci . . ., 1620, Parisiis, cum privelegeo regis; pearl (referenced by Junius, p.323 of this text): "quam vocem nifi fallor , apud Columellam ea fignificatione legi , ibid . Hac vniones Cleopatranas . ] Scribe : vnio- F nes Cleopatranos . nam hic vnio . Græci μovónox vniones vocant , hoc eft vnica grana , nam gra na etiam pro margaritis . Gloffe : vniones , up εδείται μεγάλοι , μονόκοκκα.ita enim ibi fcribendum . alie Gloffa : movoxoxxov , vnio . margarita vnibacca dixit eleganter Publius : fed nunc liber ad manum non eft . vniones au tem , hoc eft margaritas , hodie perulas voca mus , voce ex Latino deflexa quafi pilulas , quafi paruas pilas . vnde & pirula Ifidoro rotunda illa nafi extremitas , pro pilula." Google translation: "I read in Columella that I am mistaken for the voice of the snow, ibid. Cleopatra's revenge ] Write: one of the Cleopatras. for here The Greeks call μovónox vniones, this is the only grain, for the grain is also for pearls. Gloffe: vniones, up εδηται μεγολοι, μονοκοκκα.ita for there to fcribendum. other Gloffa: movoxoxov, vnio. Margarita Vnibacca said elegantly Publius: fed now there is no book at hand. vniones au tem, this is pearls, today we call perulas, a voice inflected from the Latin quafi pills, quafi little balls. whence the round tip of the nave of Ifidorus, for a pill." [italics added]
[BKG Note: the sources used by SJ for the above Salmasius etymologies has not been completely identified. I checked Junius Etymologicum Anglicanum as a possible intermediate source for Salmasius. Junius cites Salmasius under Mummie (Plin. exerc. p.401, see text above), Pearl (Aug. hist. scriptures p.323, see text above), Perill (Aug. hist. + de Modo usurarum), all in conjunction with Menage. Under Poltron he also cites the Latin etym. attributed by SJ to "Saumaise," but references instead Menage. Junius does not mention Salmasius or Menage under Truck, but gives the Greek for "truckster" a negotiator.
The Menage French Dictionary and the Du Cange Latin Dictionary are possible intermediate sources, but the wide range of Salmasius texts in SJ's library makes an undiscovered text more likely.]
Author name and dates: Claude Saumaise (1588-1653)
BKG Bio-tweet: Classical scholar; learned Arabic; commentaries on Roman histories; defense of Charles I provoked Milton; SJ cites in etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Salmasius/Saumaise cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Salmasius/Saumaise cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict.] D. Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, notes several catalogue entries associated with Salmasius: 19 . . .Salmasii Florus, Amst. 1674; 240 Historiae Augustae scriptores Par. 1620; 566 Polyhistoria Salmasii, 2 t. 1629; 526 8. Salmosius [sic] de re-militari, &c.; 146 Salmasii opera 9 t. (Green found no record of publication of the Salmasii opera, and suggests that the "opera" might be volumes of miscellaneous works.)]
- Salmasius (no work cited); mummy; pearl; poltron; truck;
- Dict. entries:
- MUMMY (MU'MMY) n.s. [mumie, Fr. mumia, Lat. derived by Salmasius from amomum, by Bochart from the Arabick.] 1. A dead body preserved by the Egyptian art of embalming.
- PEARL (PEARL) n.s. [perle, Fr. perla, Spanish; supposed by Salmasius to come from spherula, Latin.]
- POLTRON (PO'LTRON) n.s. [pollice truncato, from the thumb cut off; it being once a practice of cowards to cut off their thumbs, that they might not be compelled to serve in war. Saumaise. Menage derives it from the Italian poltro, a bed; as cowards feign themselves sick a bed: others derive it from poletro or poltro, a young unbroken horse.] A coward; a nidgit; a scoundrel.
- To TRUCK (TRUCK) v.n. [troquer, Fr. truccare, Italian; trocar, Spanish; deduced by Salmasius from _____{Greek, "trogen?"}, to get money.] To traffick by exchange; to give one commodity for another.
Historiae Augustae Scriptores VI. Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio, Flavius Vopiscus. Claudius Salmasius Ex Veteribus Libris Recensuit, Et Librum Adjecit Notarum Ac Emendationum Quib. Adjunctae Sunt Notae Ac Emendationes Isaaci . . ., 1620, Parisiis, cum privelegeo regis; pearl (referenced by Junius, p.323 of this text): "quam vocem nifi fallor , apud Columellam ea fignificatione legi , ibid . Hac vniones Cleopatranas . ] Scribe : vnio- F nes Cleopatranos . nam hic vnio . Græci μovónox vniones vocant , hoc eft vnica grana , nam gra na etiam pro margaritis . Gloffe : vniones , up εδείται μεγάλοι , μονόκοκκα.ita enim ibi fcribendum . alie Gloffa : movoxoxxov , vnio . margarita vnibacca dixit eleganter Publius : fed nunc liber ad manum non eft . vniones au tem , hoc eft margaritas , hodie perulas voca mus , voce ex Latino deflexa quafi pilulas , quafi paruas pilas . vnde & pirula Ifidoro rotunda illa nafi extremitas , pro pilula." Google translation: "I read in Columella that I am mistaken for the voice of the snow, ibid. Cleopatra's revenge ] Write: one of the Cleopatras. for here The Greeks call μovónox vniones, this is the only grain, for the grain is also for pearls. Gloffe: vniones, up εδηται μεγολοι, μονοκοκκα.ita for there to fcribendum. other Gloffa: movoxoxov, vnio. Margarita Vnibacca said elegantly Publius: fed now there is no book at hand. vniones au tem, this is pearls, today we call perulas, a voice inflected from the Latin quafi pills, quafi little balls. whence the round tip of the nave of Ifidorus, for a pill." [italics added]
[BKG Note: the sources used by SJ for the above Salmasius etymologies has not been completely identified. I checked Junius Etymologicum Anglicanum as a possible intermediate source for Salmasius. Junius cites Salmasius under Mummie (Plin. exerc. p.401, see text above), Pearl (Aug. hist. scriptures p.323, see text above), Perill (Aug. hist. + de Modo usurarum), all in conjunction with Menage. Under Poltron he also cites the Latin etym. attributed by SJ to "Saumaise," but references instead Menage. Junius does not mention Salmasius or Menage under Truck, but gives the Greek for "truckster" a negotiator.
The Menage French Dictionary and the Du Cange Latin Dictionary are possible intermediate sources, but the wide range of Salmasius texts in SJ's library makes an undiscovered text more likely.]