LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

methodium

methodium · n

a witty conceit, a jest, joke

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What it meant

mĕthŏdĭum — Lewis & Short

mĕthŏdĭum, ii, n., = meqo/dion,

I a witty conceit, a jest, joke (post-Aug.): Trimalchio ejusmodi methodio laetus, Carpe, inquit, etc. (al. metōdīum, i. e. metwdei=on, an inserted song), Petr. 36, 5.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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