caa a22 4500 388048611 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004816 doi S0263675100004816 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004816 Herren Michael W. York University, Toronto The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670-800 [Elektronische Daten] [Michael W. Herren] Rhetoricians, orators, and public speakers of all stripes, if asked the question, which Greek or Roman deity they should invoke in case of need, would surely answer ‘Hermes' or ‘Mercury'. Members of this profession who also read early Latin-Old English glossaries might therefore be surprised to learn that the deus oratorum was none other than Priapus! This came as good news to me as one who occasionally looks for novel ways to arouse an audience. However, as I reflected further on the meaning of Épinal Glossary 10v32, my expectations wilted. Oratorum must be a simple error for hortorum, ‘of gardens'. Priapus may be fecundus, but he is not facundus. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 87-103 0263-6751 27<87 1998 27 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004816 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004816 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Herren Michael W. York University, Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 27(1998-12), 87-103 0263-6751 27<87 1998 27 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge