Lactantius, Glosses (Placidus)

Glosses of the grammarian Luctatius Placidus on the comedies of Plautus.

Alumna foster-child/nurse is said from alere to nourish. For both she who nourishes and she who is nourished can be called alumna, that is, a nurse and she who is nourished and she who nourishes. But it is better, however, as she who is nourished.
Abuti to misuse/to use up is to use both well and badly.
Abnuere to refuse/deny is to refuse, to deny. Its opposite is adnuere to nod/consent, that is, to give or to concede.
Adsciuit he took to/adopted for himself; he joined to himself that which was foreign, which he did not have.
Altrinsecus from the other side is not 'from on high', but 'from the other side'.
Abactus driven away is removed from the middle and carried off, whence thieves are called abactores rustlers/thieves.
Adhaesio adhesion is well said from that which is haerere to cling.
Aedituus sacristan, who is the guardian of the temple, and we write it with a diphthong. But the most elevated places are written with a monophthong.
Alterutra pars the one or the other side, each side.
Aethra sky/upper air is of the feminine gender, and it is the place in which the stars are, whence we say 'aetherial stars'. Otherwise, the aether aether/pure air, of the masculine gender, is above the heavens, of an igneous and invisible nature, which some call the great god or his kingdom.