histriatus

histriatus [LLgl.~iare = to act, mime] , (w. ref. to III Reg. vii 24, scalptura ~ata) kind of vessel, Heb. ‘gourd’; interp. as assoc. w. story or history. Cf.Corp. Gloss. Lat. V 620: istriate pro istoriate, id est historiae [ad] hominis similitudinem. scalptura autem ~iata est quae historias rerum aliquas imitatur, unde et recte per scalpturas ~iatas [v. l. in later MSS: historiatas] quibus mare circumdatur exempla sunt priorum temporum designata Bede Templ. 788A (cf. Gl. ad III Reg. vii 24, Gros. DM 1. 16: sculpturas histriatas [v. l. in better MSS: hystoriatas]).