"Benè. Nam ante Artimidorium nullus, quod sciam, hujus scommatis
mentionem fecit. Quod enim Traug. Fred. Benedict. ad Ciceron.
_Epist. ad Div._ 7.24. ad voc. 'Cipius' conjecit, id paullo
audientus mihi videtur conjecisse."
I have not succeeded in obtaining a sight of this edition of the
Epistles. And I should feel much obliged to any one who would quote the
"conjecture," and so enable your readers to gauge its "audacity" for
themselves. Is it not odd that Reiff should have made no remark on the
utter want of connection between the "honor manifestus," and the
"ludibria" of Olaus? or on the [Greek: kata to legomenon] of the author
that he was illustrating? {91} Artemidorus may certainly have been the
first who _recorded_ the _scomma_; but the words [Greek: kata to
legomenon] would almost justify us supposing that
"--The horn
Was a crest ere he was born."
Menage (referred to above) evidently lays some stress on the following
epigram, as an illustration of the question:--
[Greek: "Ostis eso purous katalambanei ouk agorazon,
Keinou Amaltheias hae gunae esti keras."]
Parmenon. _Anthol._ lib. ii.
But I confess that I am utterly unable to see its point and therefore
cannot, of course, trace its connection with the subject. Falstaff, it
is true, speaks of the "horn of abundance," but then he assigns it to
the husband, and makes the "lightness of the wife shine through it."
(_K. Henry IV._ Act i. Sc. 2., on which see Warburton's note.)