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LABERIUS, in the mimes which he wrote, coined words with the greatest possible freedom. For he said v. 150, Ribbeck3. mendicimonium for beggary, moechimonium, adulterio or adulteritas for adultery, depudicavit for dishonoured, and abluvium for diluvium, or deluge; in the farce which he entitled The Basket Id. v. 39. he uses manuatus est for he stole, and in The Fuller Id. v. 46. he calls a thief manuarius, manuarius, an adj. from manus, hand (e.g. manuaria mola, a hand-mill). The transition, in the substantive, to the meaning thief is made easier by manuarium aes, money won at dice, Gell. xviii. 13. 4. saying: Thief (manuari), you have lost your shame, and he makes many other innovations of the same kind. He also used obsolete and obscene words, such as are spoken only by the dregs of the people, as in the Spinners' Shop: v. 87, Ribbeck3. Orcus, in truth, will bear you on his shoulders (catomum) catomum = kat' w)=mon, Thes. Ling. Lat. s.v. nude. He uses v. 151, Ribbeck3. elutriare for washing out linen, and lavandaria, or wash, of those things which are sent to be washed. He says: Id. v. 147. With fullonicam, sc. artem and see Archiv für lat. Lex. u. Gram. x, p. 240. Into the fulling business I am hurled (coicior), There is nothing unusual in the word fullonica; hence the unusual word must be conicior (in this connection). and Id. v. 148. Ribbeck's Calidoniam, would'st outstrip the Calidonian maid? i.e. Atalanta, makes excellent sense; but with that reading we have no odd or unusual word at all. caldonia, as a common noun, might mean heater, or bath attendant (so Weiss), or it might be derived from calidus in the sense of quick, hasty. There is nothing to indicate that it is a proper name, as Hosius takes it to be. O heater (Calidoniamcaldonia), what's your haste? Would'st aught outstrip? Also in the Ropemaker Id. v. 79. he applies the term talabarriunculi to those whom the general public call talabarriones. The meaning is not known. He writes in the Compitlia: Id. v. 37; malaxavi, from the Greek malaki/zw. It is clear that the choice of the word is due to the assonance, or jingle, of mala malaxavi. My jaws I've tamed (malaxavi), and in The Forgetful Man, Id. v. 13. This is that dolt (gurdus) who, when two months ago From Africa I came, did meet me here, As I did say. Also in the farce entitled Natalicius he uses Id. vv. 60 and 61. cippus for a small column, obba for a cup, camella for a bowl, Literally, a little room, a diminutive of camera. pittacim for a flap The T.L.L. defines capitium as foramen tunicae capiti aptum, which seems meaningless with induis. The Forcellini-De Vit makes capitium a breast-band (= strophium?) and pittacium, plagula, segmentum, quod vesti assuitur, with the explanation: quod, tamquam pittacium, tunicae adsutum et adfixum est. and capitium for a breast band; the last-named passage reads:
