Authority Cited: Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
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: D. Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, notes three catalogue entries: 566 Polyhistoria Salmasii, 2 t. 1629; 526 8. Salmosius [sic] de re-militari, &c.; 146 Salmasii opera 9 t.]
When I collect the energy, I will tackle the Menage French Dictionary. The Du Cange Latin Dictionary is another possible intermediate source.}
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: D. Green, in Samuel Johnson's Library, an Annotated Guide, notes three catalogue entries: 566 Polyhistoria Salmasii, 2 t. 1629; 526 8. Salmosius [sic] de re-militari, &c.; 146 Salmasii opera 9 t.]
- 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.
When I collect the energy, I will tackle the Menage French Dictionary. The Du Cange Latin Dictionary is another possible intermediate source.}