THE END OF HOMER’S BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE.
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Homer and Chapman, George
Source notes
[1] Intending men: being divided from all other creatures by the voice; μέροψ, being a periphrasis, signifying voce divisus, of μείρω (μείρομαι) divido, and ὅψ, ὁπός, vox.
[2]Φυσίγναθος, Genas et buccas inflans.
[3]Πηλεύς, qui ex luto nascitur.
[4]‘ϒδρομέδουνα. Aquarum regina.
[5] The river Po, in Italy.
[6]Ψιχάρπαξ. Gather-crum, or ravish-crum,
[7] Shear-crust.
[8] Lick-mill.
[9] Bacon-flitch-devourer, or gnawer.
[10]Τανύπεπλος. Extenso et prourisso peploamictus. A metaphor taken from ladies’ veils, or trains, and therefore their names are here added.
[11]῞Ηπατα λευκοχίτωνα. Livering puddings white-skinn’d.
[12]Παντοδαποι̑σιν. Whose common exposition is only variis, when it properly signifies ex omni solo.
[13]Στονόεσσαν, of στενός, angutstus.
[14] Lickdish.
[15]Ευ͒ τ᾽ ἀσκήσαντες, ab ἀσκέω, elaboratè concinno.
[16] Enter-pot, or search-pot.
[17] Cheese-miner. Qui caseum rodendo cavat.
[18]Μιμούμενος. Aping, or imitating us.
[19] Boots of war.
[20]Στέμματα, Lanas, eo quod colus cingant seu coronent. Which our learned sect translate eating the crowns that Pallas wore.
[21]Τόκος. Partus, et id quod partu edidit mater. Metap. hic appellatur fænus quod ex usurâ ad nos redit.
[22]Κώνωψ. Culex vinarius.
[23] Loud-mouth.
[24] Kitchen-vessel licker.
[25] Hole-dweller. Qui foramina subit.
[26] Mud-born.
[27] Beet-devourer.
[28] The great bread eater.
[29]Πολύφωνον. The great-noise-maker, shrill or big-voiced.
[30] The lake-lover.
[31]Qui lambit culinaria vasa.
[32]Τιτύσκομαι intentissime dirigo ut certum ictum inferam.
[33] The cabbage-eater.
[34]Paludis incola. Lake-liver.
[35]Qui in calaminthâ, herbâ palustri, habitat.
[36] Bacon-eater.
[37]Qui aquis delectatur.
[38] Collop-devourer.
[39] Mud-sleeper.
[40] Leek or scallion lover.