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Classical texts

Texts, in original languages or in translation, are cited if they have possible relevance to Roman Purbeck Stone studies. JP takes no responsibility for the works cited.

Specific works

Apicius De re coquinaria (c.400AD): Refers to mortaria about 50 times.
"Catiline" on line
Mary Ella Milham's edition (1969) on line: 1. Augsburg; 2. Packard Hum. Inst.
Wikipedia on Apicius
Parallel Latin-English texts: Flower and Rosenbaum (1958); Grocock and Grainger (2006)

M. Porcius Cato the elder (Censor) De agricultura (The Latin Library)
Parallell Latin-English text (Thayer).
Recipes requiring substantial amounts of dough to be handled in a mortar

A. Cornelius Celsus De medicina (Thayer) One mention of mortarium in book 5

L. Iunius Moderatus Columella De re rustica (The Latin Library) Book XII (de vilica) for mortars

D. Iunius Iuvenalis, Satire 7 170: et quae iam veteres sanant mortaria caecos. (mortaria = medicamenta). Ed. A. E. Housman, rev. ed. CUP 1931.

T. Maccius Plautus Aulularia
One reference to mortars (as a thing that neighbours want to borrow)

Collections of texts

C. Plinius Secundus the elder Historia naturalis (Thayer); especially book XXXVI, on stone

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, tr. John Bostock and H. T. Riley (1855)

M. Vitruvius Pollio De architectura (Thayer) Use of mortar (vessel) in making ink, 7.10.3; mortar (stuff that sets) 5.12.3, 8.6.4

Encyclopedia entry about Roman mortars (J. Yates in W. Smith ed. Bill Thayer)

M. Terentivs Varro Rerum rusticarum de agri cultura (The Latin Library)
De re rustica, parallel text (Thayer)
Nothing about mortars

Other resources

Index to Thayer's Lacus Curtius. If you don't find it here, use Google

The Latin Library, front page

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (www.forumromanum.org)

Packard Humanities Institute, Latin texts on line

www.canadiancontent.net: index to many sites with texts

www.csbsju.edu: Coll. of St Benedict & St John, index to many Latin resources inc. dictionaries

Woodhouse's English--Attic Greek dictionary, 1910 (Chicago)

Lewis and Short's Latin--English dictionary: directly or indirectly

William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Alternatively available through Univ. of Michigan/

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