Curculio

"Curculio," say, "If you would do reverence to the gods, you must turn to the right hand."

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

He had the "Curculio" played before his wife, and if Catharine indeed could listen to the licentious and shameless jests of the popular Roman poet only with bashful blushes, Henry was so much the more delighted by it, and accompanied the obscenest allusions and the most indecent jests with his uproarious laughter and loud shouts of applause.

Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843

David Meadows also posted about Grabble, which is Greek Scrabble, and reminded us about Latin Scrabble posted before the initiation of this blog at Curculio.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

David Meadows also posted about Grabble, which is Greek Scrabble, and reminded us about Latin Scrabble posted before the initiation of this blog at Curculio.

Various and sundry 2005

_Curculio_, so called from the name of the parasite.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The Control of the Hickory Weevil (Curculio caryae) 39

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953

Wanting the tamarisk, we miss our little _Curculio_, who thrives upon its leaves; and the _Bruchus pisi_, for want of peas, is frequently caught in the bean-tops.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

[Footnote 8: +Curculio proboscideus+ Fab.] +Proper Time for Spray Applications+

Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

Sicyon, _Curculio_, Epidaurus (the Caria first referred to in v. 67 was a Greek town, not the state in Asia Minor), _Menaechmi_,

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

We all know him: rushing madly cross stage at top-speed (if we take the literal word of the text for it), with girded loins, in search of somebody right under his nose, the while unburdening himself of exhaustive periods that, however great the breadth of the Roman stage, would carry him several times across and back: as Curculio in 279 ff.

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916