Opinicus muttered....

> "Jon" > wrote in message

>
>> As a non latin speaker,I'm finding it a bit difficult!!
>
> As a non-Latin speaker (are there any of them left?) you should find
> it a lot more than a bit difficult. For someone who minored in Latin
> in college and holds a teaching certificate in the language (me), it's
> pretty hard going just to read it. Apicius was not the most lucid of
> authors.
>

Four years of Latin, 50 years ago, doesn't help much, and the Big and
Little Dis can be confusing when it comes to identifying particular
ingredients.

I suspect some of it has much to do with drunk monks making sloppy
transcriptions on cold nights with numb fingers and flickering rushlights.

TMO