ETYMOLOGIES

cilia, because they hide celent the eyes, and cover them with a safe guard. Supercilia eyebrows are so named because they are placed above the cilia, which are therefore clothed with hairs so that they might extend defenses for the eyes and repel sweat flowing down from the head. Intercilium is that middle part between the eyebrows, which is without hair.

43. Genae cheeks are the lower parts of the eyes, from where the beards begin: for in Greek genyon is beard. Hence also genae, because the beards begin to be born from there.

44. Malae cheekbones are the prominent parts under the eyes, placed there for their protection. They are called malae, either because they protrude in a roundness below the eyes, which the Greeks call mela, or because they are above the jaws.

45. Maxillae jaws [are named] by diminution from malae, just as paxillus peg from palus stake, taxillus die from talus ankle bone. Mandibulae mandibles are parts of the jaws, from which the name was also made. The ancients called the barba beard because it belongs to men, not to women.

Aeneid 4. 359.

46. The name aurium of the ears is placed from hauriendis draining/drawing in voices, whence also Virgil: "And I drew in the voice with these ears." Or because the Greeks call the voice itself auden, from auditus hearing. For through the change of a letter, they were named aures, as if audes. For the voice, reflected through their windings, makes a sound by which they receive the sense of hearing. The pinnula earlobe/fin, the highest part of the ear, is named from sharpness acumen. For the ancients used to call a sharp thing pinnum: whence also bipennis two-edged axe, and pinna feather/fin.

47. Nares nostrils are so named because through them either odor or breath does not cease to nare flow: or because they warn us by scent so that we may know

44. The Greeks call mala, mela: hence also because of the similar roundness, malae or genae are called mela. See below no. 74.
45. Others offer other etymologies for beard, but none of them are suitable.
46. "For the voice reflected." Ambrose, ibid.
Ib. "Pinnula, the highest part." Gloss: "The top of the ear is perigion."
Ib. "For pinnum." Thus book 17, ch. 7, and book 19, ch. 19.

47. "Nares—does not cease to flow." Thus in the R. Codex and Lactantius, ch. xi.; our texts erroneously [read] manare [to flow] for nare.
Ib. "Because they warn us by scent." From Donatus on the Adelphi.
Ib. Isaeus also, in notes to Lactantius on the Workmanship of God, ch. xi., observed that it is read incorrectly in Isidore as manare instead of nare: for they are the same words in Lactantius. The etymology of ignari ignorant from nares was explained in book 10, no. 143. In some published editions of Terence I read: "But not, and he had begun." But Priscian, book 10, page 879, with Isidore has caeperet from the old caepio. The more common writing is with oe.