BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF THE ANCIENT TERMS OF MARCUS CATO.

Oletum: A place planted with olives.
Centones: Garments made from rags or wools of different colors condensed or sewn into one.
Cucullones: We think these are the same as cuculli hoods.
Reiiculae: Sheep that are cast off because they are heavy with age or disease.
Pollintorem: A caretaker of the past, a name derived from pollis fine flour/dust.
Corrudam: They call this wild asparagus.
Clathri: These are the woods of cages, or things by which something is fortified, or a lattice; hence clathratae fenestrae latticed windows.
Clitellae: These are called the things by which loads are bound and carried by mules; hence muli clitellarii pack mules.

Bulbs

Bulbi megarici: Because they come from the Greek city of Megara; it is a type of onion.
Medipontus: An instrument for making ropes.
Myrthum coniugulum: That is, conjugal, from marriage.
Orchites: Testicular olives.
Pausia: An olive named from suffering original: "a patiendo".
¶ The ancients called it Ostum oil-press residue, because it is made again from one pressing of oil. They called the "factum" the pressing that which they completed at one time, which some made from one hundred and sixty modii, others from one hundred and twenty.
Cato accepts Lauream laurel wreath and laurum laurel tree as the same, with the diphthong changed. Others distinguish the leaves by the name laureae.
Delphica laurus: Because victors were crowned with it at Delphi; it is a greener laurel. The Cyprian laurel, however, has a short leaf, black and curled at the edges.
We think Matelionem is derived from matella pot/chamber pot, and it is a water vessel.

Hand-mills and Donkey-mills

Trusatiles molae: Hand-mills, so named because they are pushed by hands.
Asinariae molae: Donkey-mills are heavier and immovable.
Heluolum: A color between reddish and white; hence heluolae uuae yellowish grapes and heluolum uinum yellowish wine.
Amineum: A type of vine from the Aminean region.
Antepagmenta: Ornaments of doors which are attached to the front, that is, fastened on.
Trulleum: A vessel in which to wash hands. However, a trulla and trua is a vessel with which they pour water from the kitchen into the drain.
Cocula: Bronze vessels suitable for cooking.
Incerniculum: From sifting; it is a type of sieve.
Pedicinus: The same as what is called a foot, and a small stem original: "petiolus".
Nasiterna: A vessel for water.
Delitiares tegulae: So called from the delicia channel/gutter of the beam; others call these colliciares.