The villa to which
Catullus
was banished was at Sirmio on this lake.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
-YWJlEVOV: H, stamped with the prefect's seal.
"
197. ~OVAA~: H, "seal. "
198. J<. CtJJ. :rravov ? . . : H, "steelyard . . ,":
from a chapter concerning rules for grocers who sell any article measured by steelyards rather than scales.
199. Ducange: Charles du Fresne Du Cange, 1610-1688, scholar and lexicographer who did basic glossaries of both medieval Greek and Latin.
200. arc/"T~p: H, "stater. " The name of a coin.
service. " "liturgy. "
Potund translates
the word as
202. vel agreed price. "
. . .
: L, "or
raised the
fix the sale price. . . . The sumponos [depu- ty? ] shall receive an order to compel inn- holders to settle their measures and ves- sels. . . . The measure shall contain 30 litres and what is called the mina, 3 litres" [Ep. B, 19-1].
212. 0? VTEpaS wpct. <;: H, "two hours. "
213. iY. arjJ<Y. AiI;ElV: H, "to lock up. "
214. a~E""VE<V . . . : H, "to quench the kettles"; A? {3T/C;: H, "kettle" or "cauldron. "
215. rou o'ivov . . . : H, "to take one's fill of wine" or "to get drunk. "
216. emphorio . . . vigors: Pound transliter~ ates certain Greek words and gives his trans- lation.
217. sunthema: H, "guild. "
218. EKOtWKEo(Jwoav: H, "banished. "
pactum
203. Kmpov . . . : H,'""hoard in a season of scarcity. "
204. EVO[J<tOv: H, "house rent. " In the next line, "house rent of others. " The source reads: "Any grocer who . . . tries to raise the rent of another grocer shall be liable. "
205. leather . . . : The source reads: "and will prepare hides for shoe leather and not for carriage equipment. "
206. Xoirempers: H, "Pork Butchers. " The source says: "[Sheep] butchers are forbid- den to buy swine or store pork. " And, "Any pork butcher introducing his animals into the house of an archon to sell them secretly shall be liable" [Ep. B, 16-4].
207. oiIWv . . . : H, "house of an archon. " 208. ad pretium empti: L, "price to the
buyer. "
209. Kc,m rilv . . . evo~: H, "but for one
nomisma. " The source is concerned with bakers and bread sellers: "Bakers shall sell bread by weight fixed according to the price of corn. . . . They are to buy corn . . . by
. . .
[Ep. B 18-1].
210. Jl~b? Jl'c, . . . : H, "but not for public
. . .
220. B08pnN: H, "agents. "
221. b'CY. ~Jl<Y. ivEr(1(: H, "make clearly. "
upon which the
tax of one
211. (JLKOVOfJ. {CX . ? . : H, "management . . . in a certain manner . . . to sell. " The source for several lines reads: "When wine arrives in the city let the master . . . of the guild of inn- holders . . . warn the eparch so that he may
219.
ty. " The title of chap. 20 of The Eparch's Book, which Pound takes to be about for- eign importers.
TIEPI
: H,
"Concerning
the Depu-
known
? ? 606
96/662-664
244. de Reitz: [Cf. 243 aboveJ. The two names appeared in the essay of Julien d'As- kalon [cf. 246 belowJ .
245. rrvpor: . . -lile;: H, "fire, air, water, and earth," For "hodatas" read hydatos.
246. Julien d'Askalon: J. d'Askalon, author of the Collection of Extracts appended to the Geneva IDS Nicole edited. His comments were arranged under four headings: (I)pre? cautions against fire; (2)airing of solid items to be sold; (3)the uses of water; and (4)the laws ofland ownership.
247. TpCt1Tetwv: H, "at the table. " Because bankers leaned on the tables at which they changed money, the phrase became associ- ated with the process: hence, the modern Greek word for banker is trapezites, or "ex- change table keeper. "
248. ~vpaob? "'Cit: H, "tanners. "
254. e,KuKAwC; . . . : H, "circular edu- cation. "
255. Necephoras: Emperor N. Phocas, 963? 969, who debased the coinage [cf. 114 aboveJ . Pound says he "kolobozed" it.
256. episkeptiks . . . banauson: The control? lers of the currency fought against usorious bankers in an effort to keep interest rates under 12% [Ep. B, 2? notes]. The rates changed over time and according to the use of the money: "Basil I forbade interest to be asked or taken . . . Leo III . . . made the max
care whether you're white or black? " [Catul? Ius, Carmen, 93 has the words reversedJ. The 3 men in these several lines all stood for justice against the injustice of the state.
267. Tully: Cicero.
268. no such blue: Lake Garda's blue water.
The villa to which Catullus was banished was at Sirmio on this lake.
269. Ocelle Veronensis: L, "the eye of Ve? rona. " Description of the blue of the water.
270. Leo: 1. the Sixth, known as "the Wise," Byzantine emperor (866? 912). He modernized the works on the law done UD- der Justinian 1.
271. ElIAPXIKON . . . : H, The Eparch's Book: The great legal document uttered by Leo the Wise, 866? 912, to provide some measure of justice in the marketplace. The Byzantine-Greek version was discovered in 1891 by Professor Jules Nicole ref. 187 above], who transcribed it into modern Greek and made both Latin and French translations, published in 1893 as Le Livre du Pn! fet. [The original ms and the Greek and Latin versions are reproduced in Pai, 2? 2, 245? 311. J The book has 22 short chap? ters each devoted to one part of the market? place, including money, banking, food, clothing, and construction. The rules were designed to prevent one part of the public from victimizing another. This is the earliest
known document to deal with such matters in specific detail. The eparchy was an admin? istrative district reaching 100 miles in all directions from Constantinople. The book opens with a formulary preamble saying the work was done by direction of "the Serene Emepror following the examples of God for the good of all subjects, the tranquiIlity of the state. "
272. "I""l1v6711" H, "tranquil. " The for? mula includes "to stop one man from tread- ing on another. "
273. rrOAtTtK. Wll aW}lCl:. Te[wll: H, "Political Bodies. " Part of the title of the Greek ms.
274. "les arrhes du marche": F, "earnest-
249. J1CXAfX. K (XTfY. p Wl:
H, "softeners. "
257. Komi . . . \WWv): H, "for the quality of animals. " Refers to a chapter concerned with butchers [Ep. B, 15? 2J.
258. X"rpE . . . : H, "Goodbye to the sun. "
259. Clarore: L, "brightness. " The system of defending the public by laws to maintain "the just price" and the integrity of the coinage was beginning to disintegrate.
250. ~vpao1Iowi: H, not in Liddell and Scott; but ~vpao is "leather" and '1To~6t is the plural of 7TOLOC; "of a certain kind. "
251. MCv. "IK(1I? C H, not in Liddell and Scott, but related forms indicate, "a place run for cookery. " The "four" is F for "oven. "
252. No yugo? slav . . . : Not in The Eparch's Book but prob. a contemporary example of rules made to prevent foreigners from be- coming citizens and competing in trade, which the work deals with in detail, especial? ly in chap. 2, "Dealers in Bullion and Money? lenders" and Chap. 20, "Deputy of the Eparch," whose business it was to keep track of "any persons arriving in Constanti- nople. " Any traders who stayed beyond their permitted time were punished: "they shall be flogged, shaved, their goods shall be conflscated and they shall be expelled from the city" [Ep. B, 20? 2J.
253. Ronnie: Prob. Ronald Duncan, a major poet in the Pound Tradition and a life? long farmer in North Devon, who had a lengthy correspondence with Pound during the St. Elizabeths years [OPJ .
260. And in the sixth . . . : Pound's
tion of part of the long quote from the Patr%giae Latina [cf. 165 aboveJ.
official loan . . .
rate 4 per cent 12%," etc.
p. a. . . .
maritime
261. iustitiae . . . : L, "Justice . . .
more ancient. " Part of quote from Cicero's De Officiis [86/565J.
262. "Honest feathers": Dante [pur. I, 42J describes Cato asking a question while "mo- vendo queUe oneste piume" ("moving those dignified plumes"). Pound gives the last two
words thus.
263. "Quid oecidere? ": L, "What about murder? " Cato asked this [86:77J.
264. Pascere satis: L, "Raise [cattleJ well. " In Cicero's De Officiis Cato the elder an? swered the first question about how to run an estate profltably by these words.
265. humiles . . . improbi: L, "AlI humble people are not dishonest" [Cicero, De Offi? ciis, 2. 7IJ.
266. An ater, an albus: L, "Or black, or white. " Catullus said to Julius Caesar: "Do I
rendi?
nothing
96/664-667
607
money for trade," or "option money. " Ni- cole's annoyance seems to have been caused by the difficulty of finding words for Greek goods and processes no longer in existence.
275. ~"a'"Eva, A? wv: H, "King Leo. "
276. notary: Chap. One concerns the qualifi?
cations needed for and the duties of "tabu- laries," whose functions were similar to those of notaries.
277. ni cuivre . . . lin: L, "neither copper nor linen textiles. " From chap. 2, "Bullion and Moneylenders. " They are required by the notary to deal in silver and to keep out of other businessmen's business. The Source reads: "It is forbidden to hoard these com- modities so as to selI them at a period of dearth, or to exact an undue profit above what is fair when they are scarce. "
278. KlXTCX b6110v . . . : H, "cheat through increasing. "
279. "romaine": Prob. the name of a Ro? man scale.
280. ergastorios: H, "premises. "
281. Manuale: Manualis Legis, L, "Book of Law. "
282. Basiliks: A modernization of the Code of Justinian done by Leo the Wise.
283.
284. ence
285. 286.
287. off. "
Handschrift: G, "handwriting. "
eV}l[ex}lex ? . ? : H, "incense in the pres- of the Lord. "
au Mi}v X,,)v<ilV: H, "and not copper. " i;[ Tt~: H, "anyone. "
xerpOK01IEiu8w: H, "let a hand be cut
'0 bOllov '" : [changeJ the nature [of 289. Ell . . . Tr,e; MEa77~: H, "on the main
[businessJ street. " A particular circular thor? oughfare which functioned as the agora or marketplace.
2~0. ei. 8i}oewc; . . . : H, "the knowing assent of the Eparch. " The source has these words
288.
goldJ by cunning adulterate.
? ? 608
96/667
97/668
609
preceded by "avEv," "without. " Nicole's eyesight seems to have been better than Pound's here. Aveu: F, "consent, avowal. " The Greek v is similar to the Roman v, and the source of this pun.
291. Palace .
197. ~OVAA~: H, "seal. "
198. J<. CtJJ. :rravov ? . . : H, "steelyard . . ,":
from a chapter concerning rules for grocers who sell any article measured by steelyards rather than scales.
199. Ducange: Charles du Fresne Du Cange, 1610-1688, scholar and lexicographer who did basic glossaries of both medieval Greek and Latin.
200. arc/"T~p: H, "stater. " The name of a coin.
service. " "liturgy. "
Potund translates
the word as
202. vel agreed price. "
. . .
: L, "or
raised the
fix the sale price. . . . The sumponos [depu- ty? ] shall receive an order to compel inn- holders to settle their measures and ves- sels. . . . The measure shall contain 30 litres and what is called the mina, 3 litres" [Ep. B, 19-1].
212. 0? VTEpaS wpct. <;: H, "two hours. "
213. iY. arjJ<Y. AiI;ElV: H, "to lock up. "
214. a~E""VE<V . . . : H, "to quench the kettles"; A? {3T/C;: H, "kettle" or "cauldron. "
215. rou o'ivov . . . : H, "to take one's fill of wine" or "to get drunk. "
216. emphorio . . . vigors: Pound transliter~ ates certain Greek words and gives his trans- lation.
217. sunthema: H, "guild. "
218. EKOtWKEo(Jwoav: H, "banished. "
pactum
203. Kmpov . . . : H,'""hoard in a season of scarcity. "
204. EVO[J<tOv: H, "house rent. " In the next line, "house rent of others. " The source reads: "Any grocer who . . . tries to raise the rent of another grocer shall be liable. "
205. leather . . . : The source reads: "and will prepare hides for shoe leather and not for carriage equipment. "
206. Xoirempers: H, "Pork Butchers. " The source says: "[Sheep] butchers are forbid- den to buy swine or store pork. " And, "Any pork butcher introducing his animals into the house of an archon to sell them secretly shall be liable" [Ep. B, 16-4].
207. oiIWv . . . : H, "house of an archon. " 208. ad pretium empti: L, "price to the
buyer. "
209. Kc,m rilv . . . evo~: H, "but for one
nomisma. " The source is concerned with bakers and bread sellers: "Bakers shall sell bread by weight fixed according to the price of corn. . . . They are to buy corn . . . by
. . .
[Ep. B 18-1].
210. Jl~b? Jl'c, . . . : H, "but not for public
. . .
220. B08pnN: H, "agents. "
221. b'CY. ~Jl<Y. ivEr(1(: H, "make clearly. "
upon which the
tax of one
211. (JLKOVOfJ. {CX . ? . : H, "management . . . in a certain manner . . . to sell. " The source for several lines reads: "When wine arrives in the city let the master . . . of the guild of inn- holders . . . warn the eparch so that he may
219.
ty. " The title of chap. 20 of The Eparch's Book, which Pound takes to be about for- eign importers.
TIEPI
: H,
"Concerning
the Depu-
known
? ? 606
96/662-664
244. de Reitz: [Cf. 243 aboveJ. The two names appeared in the essay of Julien d'As- kalon [cf. 246 belowJ .
245. rrvpor: . . -lile;: H, "fire, air, water, and earth," For "hodatas" read hydatos.
246. Julien d'Askalon: J. d'Askalon, author of the Collection of Extracts appended to the Geneva IDS Nicole edited. His comments were arranged under four headings: (I)pre? cautions against fire; (2)airing of solid items to be sold; (3)the uses of water; and (4)the laws ofland ownership.
247. TpCt1Tetwv: H, "at the table. " Because bankers leaned on the tables at which they changed money, the phrase became associ- ated with the process: hence, the modern Greek word for banker is trapezites, or "ex- change table keeper. "
248. ~vpaob? "'Cit: H, "tanners. "
254. e,KuKAwC; . . . : H, "circular edu- cation. "
255. Necephoras: Emperor N. Phocas, 963? 969, who debased the coinage [cf. 114 aboveJ . Pound says he "kolobozed" it.
256. episkeptiks . . . banauson: The control? lers of the currency fought against usorious bankers in an effort to keep interest rates under 12% [Ep. B, 2? notes]. The rates changed over time and according to the use of the money: "Basil I forbade interest to be asked or taken . . . Leo III . . . made the max
care whether you're white or black? " [Catul? Ius, Carmen, 93 has the words reversedJ. The 3 men in these several lines all stood for justice against the injustice of the state.
267. Tully: Cicero.
268. no such blue: Lake Garda's blue water.
The villa to which Catullus was banished was at Sirmio on this lake.
269. Ocelle Veronensis: L, "the eye of Ve? rona. " Description of the blue of the water.
270. Leo: 1. the Sixth, known as "the Wise," Byzantine emperor (866? 912). He modernized the works on the law done UD- der Justinian 1.
271. ElIAPXIKON . . . : H, The Eparch's Book: The great legal document uttered by Leo the Wise, 866? 912, to provide some measure of justice in the marketplace. The Byzantine-Greek version was discovered in 1891 by Professor Jules Nicole ref. 187 above], who transcribed it into modern Greek and made both Latin and French translations, published in 1893 as Le Livre du Pn! fet. [The original ms and the Greek and Latin versions are reproduced in Pai, 2? 2, 245? 311. J The book has 22 short chap? ters each devoted to one part of the market? place, including money, banking, food, clothing, and construction. The rules were designed to prevent one part of the public from victimizing another. This is the earliest
known document to deal with such matters in specific detail. The eparchy was an admin? istrative district reaching 100 miles in all directions from Constantinople. The book opens with a formulary preamble saying the work was done by direction of "the Serene Emepror following the examples of God for the good of all subjects, the tranquiIlity of the state. "
272. "I""l1v6711" H, "tranquil. " The for? mula includes "to stop one man from tread- ing on another. "
273. rrOAtTtK. Wll aW}lCl:. Te[wll: H, "Political Bodies. " Part of the title of the Greek ms.
274. "les arrhes du marche": F, "earnest-
249. J1CXAfX. K (XTfY. p Wl:
H, "softeners. "
257. Komi . . . \WWv): H, "for the quality of animals. " Refers to a chapter concerned with butchers [Ep. B, 15? 2J.
258. X"rpE . . . : H, "Goodbye to the sun. "
259. Clarore: L, "brightness. " The system of defending the public by laws to maintain "the just price" and the integrity of the coinage was beginning to disintegrate.
250. ~vpao1Iowi: H, not in Liddell and Scott; but ~vpao is "leather" and '1To~6t is the plural of 7TOLOC; "of a certain kind. "
251. MCv. "IK(1I? C H, not in Liddell and Scott, but related forms indicate, "a place run for cookery. " The "four" is F for "oven. "
252. No yugo? slav . . . : Not in The Eparch's Book but prob. a contemporary example of rules made to prevent foreigners from be- coming citizens and competing in trade, which the work deals with in detail, especial? ly in chap. 2, "Dealers in Bullion and Money? lenders" and Chap. 20, "Deputy of the Eparch," whose business it was to keep track of "any persons arriving in Constanti- nople. " Any traders who stayed beyond their permitted time were punished: "they shall be flogged, shaved, their goods shall be conflscated and they shall be expelled from the city" [Ep. B, 20? 2J.
253. Ronnie: Prob. Ronald Duncan, a major poet in the Pound Tradition and a life? long farmer in North Devon, who had a lengthy correspondence with Pound during the St. Elizabeths years [OPJ .
260. And in the sixth . . . : Pound's
tion of part of the long quote from the Patr%giae Latina [cf. 165 aboveJ.
official loan . . .
rate 4 per cent 12%," etc.
p. a. . . .
maritime
261. iustitiae . . . : L, "Justice . . .
more ancient. " Part of quote from Cicero's De Officiis [86/565J.
262. "Honest feathers": Dante [pur. I, 42J describes Cato asking a question while "mo- vendo queUe oneste piume" ("moving those dignified plumes"). Pound gives the last two
words thus.
263. "Quid oecidere? ": L, "What about murder? " Cato asked this [86:77J.
264. Pascere satis: L, "Raise [cattleJ well. " In Cicero's De Officiis Cato the elder an? swered the first question about how to run an estate profltably by these words.
265. humiles . . . improbi: L, "AlI humble people are not dishonest" [Cicero, De Offi? ciis, 2. 7IJ.
266. An ater, an albus: L, "Or black, or white. " Catullus said to Julius Caesar: "Do I
rendi?
nothing
96/664-667
607
money for trade," or "option money. " Ni- cole's annoyance seems to have been caused by the difficulty of finding words for Greek goods and processes no longer in existence.
275. ~"a'"Eva, A? wv: H, "King Leo. "
276. notary: Chap. One concerns the qualifi?
cations needed for and the duties of "tabu- laries," whose functions were similar to those of notaries.
277. ni cuivre . . . lin: L, "neither copper nor linen textiles. " From chap. 2, "Bullion and Moneylenders. " They are required by the notary to deal in silver and to keep out of other businessmen's business. The Source reads: "It is forbidden to hoard these com- modities so as to selI them at a period of dearth, or to exact an undue profit above what is fair when they are scarce. "
278. KlXTCX b6110v . . . : H, "cheat through increasing. "
279. "romaine": Prob. the name of a Ro? man scale.
280. ergastorios: H, "premises. "
281. Manuale: Manualis Legis, L, "Book of Law. "
282. Basiliks: A modernization of the Code of Justinian done by Leo the Wise.
283.
284. ence
285. 286.
287. off. "
Handschrift: G, "handwriting. "
eV}l[ex}lex ? . ? : H, "incense in the pres- of the Lord. "
au Mi}v X,,)v<ilV: H, "and not copper. " i;[ Tt~: H, "anyone. "
xerpOK01IEiu8w: H, "let a hand be cut
'0 bOllov '" : [changeJ the nature [of 289. Ell . . . Tr,e; MEa77~: H, "on the main
[businessJ street. " A particular circular thor? oughfare which functioned as the agora or marketplace.
2~0. ei. 8i}oewc; . . . : H, "the knowing assent of the Eparch. " The source has these words
288.
goldJ by cunning adulterate.
? ? 608
96/667
97/668
609
preceded by "avEv," "without. " Nicole's eyesight seems to have been better than Pound's here. Aveu: F, "consent, avowal. " The Greek v is similar to the Roman v, and the source of this pun.
291. Palace .
