10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SINCIPITA»
Discover the use of
sincipita in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sincipita and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays
These, according to Pliny, forbade the eating of abdomnia, glandia, testiculi,
vulvae, sincipita verrina. Not only do these outward items figure prominently on
Menaechmus's bill of fare, but Plautus plays with them verbally, concocting
dishes like ...
2
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Entire crown very bright rufo-ferruginous, contracting along the occiput: small
frontal plumes, lores, and chin, black: sincipita and checks ashy, with black
mesial streaks, more developed on the ear-coverts: general hue greenish olive-
brown, ...
Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India), 1856
3
Studies in Latin Poetry
Pliny tells us that this legislation explicitly forbade the eating of " cenis abdomina,
glandia, testiculi, vulvae, sincipita verrina."11 Not only do these outlawed items
figure prominently on Menaechmus' carte du jour, but Plautus plays with them ...
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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
... fulvous hue, without any admixture of dark hairs: the second has a general
slight admixture of dark hairs, which predominate on the forehead, vertex, and
occiput, while the sincipita continue bright fulvous ; the arms and hands, knees,
shins, ...
5
Studies in Latin Poetry
Pliny tells us that this legislation explicitly forbade the eating of " cenis abdomina,
glandia, testiculi, vulvae, sincipita verrina."11 Not only do these outlawed items
figure prominently on Menaechmus' carte du jour, but Plautus plays with them ...
Christopher Mounsey Dawson, Thomas Cole, 1969
2n sincipita-menta also implies a meaningless *sincipitare 'to half-head' (sinciput
= semi + caput, r|ui-Kpocviov, the top half of a head, i.e., brains, cf. 506, 633), and
Pl. is probably punning on *incip-it-are or incitare. Hence roughly 'hogbrains ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, A. S. Gratwick, 1993
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Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii Opera Quae Supersunt ...: ...
Hinc Censoriarum legum pa- ginae, interdictaque coenis abdomina glandia
testiculi vulvae sincipita ver riña, ut (amen Publii mimorum poelae coena ,
postquam Servituten exuerat, nulla memoretur sine abdo- mine, etiam vocabulo
suminis ab ...
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, Ludwig von Jan, 1852
Hinc Censoriarum legum pagime, interdictaqne comis abdomina, glandia,
testiculi, vulva, sincipita verrina, ut tamen Publii mimorum poetic coma, postquam
servitutcm exuerat, nulls memoretnr sine abdomine etiam vocabqu suminis ab e0
...
9
Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery
209, hinc censoriarum legum paginae interdictaque cenis abdomina, glandia,
testiculi, vulvae, sincipita verrina; Hor. Ep. I. 15.41, nil vulva pulchrius ampla,
spoken by a glutton. skills.1 Thirdly the words imply that through debauchery,2
the ...
10
Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime
... Historia,VIII, 209) seems to provide further evidence for the presence of the
theme in mime: Hinc censoriarum legum paginae, interdictaque cenis abdomina,
glandia, testiculi, vulvae, sincipita verrina, ut tamen Publili mimorum poetae cena,
...
