Open AccessNota volandera a una receta de Apicio
Author(s) -
Ramón Baltar Veloso
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1979.v47.i1.870
Subject(s) - philosophy , linguistics , humanities
Giarratano-Vollmer's surmise that the unsound reading baca in Apicius 3.10.3 could conceal aqua should not to be taken for granted on account of the implausibility of the transcription, the name of water being far too familiar to the scribes so as to mislead them in such a way. Instead, for the sake of palaeographical economy laca —a kind of brine— might be considered