One would think that the following definition
of
Tragedian
would be rather superfluous after this,--'_a maker of dites
?
Chaucer - Boethius
158, it could
not have been a very familiar term.
Our translator evidently took note of various readings, for on p. 31 he
notes a variation of the original. On p. 51 he uses _armurers_
(= armures) to render _arma_, though most copies agree in reading
_arva_.
There are numerous glosses and explanations of particular passages,
which seem to be interpolated by Chaucer himself. Thus he explains what
is meant by the _heritage of Socrates_ (p. 10, 11); he gives the
meaning of _coemption_ (p. 15); of _Euripus_ (p. 33); of the _porch_
(p. 166).[I-11] Some of his definitions are very quaint; as, for
instance, that of Tragedy--'_a dite of a prosperite for a tyme ?at endi?
in wrechednesse_' (p. 35).
One would think that the following definition
of
Tragedian
would be rather superfluous after this,--'_a maker of dites
?
at hy?ten_ (are called) _tregedies_' (p. 77).
_Melliflui . . . oris Homerus_
is thus quaintly Englished: _Homer wi? ?e hony mou?e, ?at is to seyn.
homer wi? ?e swete dites_ (p. 153).
