libacunculusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /liː.baːˈkun.ku.lus/, [lʲiːbäːˈkʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.baˈkun.ku.lus/, [libäˈkuŋkulus]

名詞

lībācunculus m (genitive lībācunculī); second declension

1. (hapax) a type of small cake
   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, De spectaculis 27:

     Nemo venenum temperat felle et elleboro, sed conditis pulmentis et bene saporatis, et plurimum dulcibus id mali inicit. Ita et diabolus letale quod conficit rebus dei gratissimis et acceptissimis imbuit. Omnia illic seu fortia seu honesta seu sonora seu canora seu subtilia [perinde/proinde] habe ac [si] stillicidia mellis de libacunculo venenato nec tanti gulam facias voluptatis quanti periculum per suavitatem.

     • 1931 translation by T.R. Glover^[1]

       No one mixes poison with gall and hellebore; no, it is into delicacies well made, well flavoured, and, for the most part, sweet things, that he drops the venom. So does the devil; the deadly draught he brews, he flavours with the most agreeable, the most welcome gifts of God. So count all you find there—brave and honest, resounding, musical, exquisite—as so much honey dripping from a poisoned bit of pastry; and do not count your appetite for the pleasure worth the risk in the sweetness.

使用する際の注意点

This word is a hapax legomenon that occurs only as the ablative singular form libacunculo in Tertullian's De spectaculis (かつ subsequent sources that quote または reference this passage). Alternative readings are "de lucunculo venenato" (with approximately the same meaning) and "de ranunculo venenato" "from a poisonous frog".^[2][3]

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

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