Dr. Edward Brandt, the philologist of Munich, is the latest of the Apician commentators. His researches are quite exhaustive. While not conclusive (as some of the problems will perhaps never be solved) he has shed much new light on the vexatious questions of the origin and the authors of our old Roman cookery book.
{ Illustration: CANTHARUS, WINE CUP WITH HANDLES
Elaborate decoration of Bacchic motifs: wine leaves and masks of satyrs. Hildesheim Treasure.}
Abalana, Abellana, hazelnut, see Avellana
ABDOMEN, sow's udder, belly, fat of lower part of belly, figur. Gluttony, intemperance
ABROTANUM, --ONUM, --ONUS the herb lad's love; or, according to most Southernwood. ABROTONUM is also a town in Africa
Absinth. ABSINTHIUM, the herb wormwood. The Romans used A. from several parts of the world. { Rx} 3, also APSINTHIUM
ABSINTHIATUS, --UM, flavored with wormwood, { Rx} 3
ABSINTHITES, wine tempered or mixed with wormwood; modern absinth or Vermouth, cf. { Rx} 3
ABUA, a small fish; see APUA, { Rx} 138, 139, 147
ACER, ACEO, ACIDUM, to be or to make sour, tart
ACETABULUM, a "vinegar" cruet: a small measure, equivalent to 15 Attic drachms; see Measures
ACICULA, ACUS, the needle fish, or horn-back, or horn-beak; a long fish with a snout sharp like a needle; the gar-fish, or sea-needle
ACINUS, --UM, a grain, or grape raisin berry or kernel
ACIPENSER, a large fish, sturgeon, { Rx} 145; also see STYRIO
ACOR, --UM, sourness, tartness; the herb sweetcane, gardenflag, galangale
ACRIMONIA, acidity, tartness, sourness; harshness of taste
Adulterations of food in antiquity, pp. 33, 39, seq. 147; { Rx} 6, 7, 9, 15, 17, 18. Also see Cookery, deceptive
Aegineta, Paulus, writer on medicine and cookery, see Apiciana, No. 5-6
AENEUM, a "metal" cooking utensil, a CACCABUS, which see; AENEUM VAS, a mixing bowl; AENEA PATELLA, a pewter, bronze or silver service platter. Aeno Coctus, braised, sometimes confused with oenococtum, stewed in wine
AËROPTES, fowl, birds; the correct title of Book VI, see p. 141
"AFFE" (Ger.) Monkey; { Rx} 55; also see Caramel Coloring
AGNUS, IN AGNO, lamb; AGNINUS, pertaining to L. { Rx} 291 seq., 355, 364, 495 ---- COPADIA AGNINA, { Rx} 355 seq. ---- AGNI COCTURA, { Rx} 358 ---- ASSUS, { Rx} 359 ---- AGNUM SIMPLICEM, { Rx} 495 ---- TARPEIANUS, { Rx} 363