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The most striking feature of the dictionary is its etymology. Almost every word is supplied with a derivation, often very far-fetched. Thus glisco is derived from 'glykis, quod est dulcis; que enim dulcia sunt desiderare solemus': gliscere therefore is equivalent to desiderare, crescere, pinguescere and several other words. After this we are not surprised at the following account of a dormouse.
An example of the turn of words, amongst a thousand others, is that in the last book of Ovid's "Metamorphoses": "Heu! quantum scelus est, in viscera, viscera condi! Congestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpus; Alteriusque animantem animantis vivere leto." An example on the turn both of thoughts and words is to be found in Catullus in the complaint of Ariadne when she was left by Theseus:
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