23-10-2018, 09:37 PM
I will add some more confusion to it. 
Never thought that one word in the same quotes and with the same meaning can be so... incalculable and different. We saw that portion of variants in connection to the"Historia de praeliis". And I have a little more. So, now I am not ready to say whether anchiton is correct word with unknown meaning or just incorrect (distorted) word of unknown origin.
I found a few quite surprising variants of this enigmatic word that must stand for a name of some substance similar to wood. I really don't understand now where mistakes and where a correct transcription are.
1. I begin with the most quaint: "cum Amaco ligni genus" (probably, Amacus or Amacum in nominative).
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2. The next - Anthicon. It is interesting that it is used in the commentary by Peter Cellensis in the same quote of Saint Hieronimus. Unfortunately, it is unavailable for reading (at least, for me), but Google shows a fragment of the Zeitschrift fur deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur:
Jahrhundert nimmt der Stiftshüttenkommentar des Petrus Cellensis († 1183)* die Frage nach dem Altarholz, das nicht ... ein neues nicht brennendes Holz geworden: est etiam anthicon ligni genus vel ligno simile, quod quanto plus arserit, ...
and an image of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in German.
As I understand, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (or some of the other famous Cyrils of the Byzantine tradition) is mentioned above.
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This book You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains a chapter named De anthiarum generibus. It is about some Anthia, as I understand, a kind of fish with a thorn. It is also mentioned as Anthicon. Maybe, this name's etymology is connected to thorns.
And, finally, one more commentary on Hieronimus - with Anthiton this time:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where it is compared to the wood Laix, described by Pliny.
Funny!
Never thought that one word in the same quotes and with the same meaning can be so... incalculable and different. We saw that portion of variants in connection to the"Historia de praeliis". And I have a little more. So, now I am not ready to say whether anchiton is correct word with unknown meaning or just incorrect (distorted) word of unknown origin.
I found a few quite surprising variants of this enigmatic word that must stand for a name of some substance similar to wood. I really don't understand now where mistakes and where a correct transcription are.
1. I begin with the most quaint: "cum Amaco ligni genus" (probably, Amacus or Amacum in nominative).
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2. The next - Anthicon. It is interesting that it is used in the commentary by Peter Cellensis in the same quote of Saint Hieronimus. Unfortunately, it is unavailable for reading (at least, for me), but Google shows a fragment of the Zeitschrift fur deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur:
Jahrhundert nimmt der Stiftshüttenkommentar des Petrus Cellensis († 1183)* die Frage nach dem Altarholz, das nicht ... ein neues nicht brennendes Holz geworden: est etiam anthicon ligni genus vel ligno simile, quod quanto plus arserit, ...
and an image of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in German.
As I understand, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (or some of the other famous Cyrils of the Byzantine tradition) is mentioned above.
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This book You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains a chapter named De anthiarum generibus. It is about some Anthia, as I understand, a kind of fish with a thorn. It is also mentioned as Anthicon. Maybe, this name's etymology is connected to thorns.
And, finally, one more commentary on Hieronimus - with Anthiton this time:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where it is compared to the wood Laix, described by Pliny.
Funny!