Thesauros Edebiyat miscellany Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae

Noctes Atticae Gellius, Aulus

Kitap 11

7 Another Einfaltspinsel also, after some little reading of that kind, when his opponent requested that a case be postponed, said: I pray you, praetor, help me, aid me! How long, pray, shall this bovinator delay me? And he bawled it out three or four times in a loud voice: He is a bovinator. A murmur began to arise from many of those who were present, as if in wonder at this monster of a word. But he, waving his arms and gesticulating, cried: What, haven't you read Lucilius, who calls a shuffler bovinator? And, in fact, this verse occurs in Lucilius' eleventh book: 417, Marx.
7 If trifling shuffler (bovinator) with abusive tongue.
8 What Marcus Cato thought and said of Albinus, who, though a Roman, wrote a history of Rome in the Greek language, having first asked indulgence for his lack of skill in that tongue.

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