Argument. -- Caldonius, Herculanus, and Others Carry into Effect What the Preceding Letter Had Bidden Them. Caldonius, with Herculanus and Victor, his colleagues, also with Rogatianus and Numidicus, presbyters. [2382] We have rejected Felicissimus and Augendus from communion; also Repostus from among the exiles, and Irene of the Blood-stained ones; [2383] and Paula the sempstress; which you ought to know from my subscription; also we have rejected Sophronius and Soliassus (budinarius), [2384] -- himself also one of the exiles. Footnotes: [2381] Oxford ed.: Ep. 42. a.d. 251. [2382] V. l. "to Cyprian, greeting." [2383] "Rutili," scil. confessors who had spilt their blood. [2384] "Budinarius." The exact meaning of this word is unknown. Some read it as another name: "Soliassus and Budinarius." The Oxford editor changes it into Burdonarius, meaning a "carrier on mules." Salmasius, in a long note on a passage in the life of Aurelian (Hist. Aug., p. 408), proposes butinarius, which he derives from butine, a cruet for containing vinegar, etc., and which he identifies with bouttis, the original of our bottle. Butinarias would then mean a maker of vessels suitable for containing vinegar, etc. See Sophocles' Glossary of Byzantine Greek, s. v. bouttis. [Probably low Latin for a maker of force-meats. Spanish, budin.] |
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