14.003
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Pugillares
citrei
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Tablets/notebooks of citrus wood
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14.004
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Quinquiplices
[cera]
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Five-leaved tablets/notebooks
[waxed]
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14.005
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Pugillares
eborei
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Ivory tablets/notebooks
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14.006
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Triplices
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Three-leaved tablets/notebooks
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14.007
|
Pugillares
membranei
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Parchment tablets/notebooks
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Esse puta ceras, licet haed
membrana vocetur:
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Suppose it to be wax, though it
is called parchment
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delebis, quotiens scripta novare
voles.
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You will erase whatever you want
to write anew.
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14.008
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Vitelliani
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Vitellian tablets [for love
notes]
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14.009
|
Idem
|
The same [requesting money]
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14.010
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Chartae
maiores
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Large sheets of papyrus
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14.011
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Chartae
epistulares
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Papyrus sheets for letters
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14.183
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Homeri
Batrachomyomachia
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Homer's "Battle of Frogs and Mice"
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14.184
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Homerus in pugillaribus
membraneis. |
Homer in hand-held parchments
(notebooks?) |
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Ilias
et Priami regnis inimicus Ulixes |
The Iliad and Ulysses, enemy of Priam's
kingdom, |
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Multiplici
pariter condita pelle latent. |
are there together, preserved in many
folds of skin |
14.185
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Virgili Culex
|
Virgil's "Gnat"
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| 14.186 |
Vergilius in membranis. |
Vergil on parchment |
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Quam brevis inmensum cepit membrana Maronem! |
How small a quantity of
parchment has comprised vast Maro! |
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Ipsius vultus prima tabella gerit. |
The
first leaf bears his own countenance |
14.187
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Menandrou ΘΑΙΣ
|
Menander's "Thais"
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| 14.188 |
Cicero in membranis. |
Cicero on parchment |
|
Si comes ista tibi fuerit membrana, putato |
If this parchment will be
your companion, suppose |
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Carpere te longas cum Cicerone vias. |
yourself to be making a long journey with
Cicero |
14.189
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Monobyblos
Properti
|
The "Monobiblos" of Propertius
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| 14.190 |
Titus Livius in membranis. |
Titus Livy on parchment. |
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Pellibus exiguis artatur
Livius ingens
|
Compressed in tiny skins vast
Livy,
|
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Quem mea non totum bibliotheca
capit |
for whom complete my library has
not room.
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14.191
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Sallustius
|
Sallust
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| 14.192 |
Ovidi
Metamorphosis
in
membranis. |
Metamorphoses
of
Ovid on parchment |
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Haec
tibi, multiplici quae
structa est massa tabella, |
This
mass that has been built up for you
with multifold tablets
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Carmina
Nasonis quinque decemque gerit. |
contains
the fifteen lays of Naso |
14.193
|
Tibullus
|
Tibullus
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14.194
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Lucanus
|
Lucan
|
14.195
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Catullus
|
Catullus
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14.196
|
Calvi de aquae
frigidae usu
|
Calvus "On the Use of Cold Water"
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