¹ The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, H. B. Swete, Cambridge (1912), Vol. III. p. 380. (Codex Vaticanus). Codex Alexandrinus has κɛφαλήν] + αὐτν) and νυκτɛρίδɛς χɛλιδόνɛς] χɛλιδόνɛς καΐ νυκτɛρίδɛς. Nνκτɛρίς is 'bat,' while noctua is 'owl'.

² Sabatier, Bibliorum Sacrorum Latinae Versiones Antiquae seu Vetus Italica, et Ceterae quaecunque in Codicibus MSS. & antiquorum libris reperiri potuerunt; Quae cum Vulgata Latina, & cum Textu Graeco comparantur, etc. Parisiis (1751), Tom. IV, fol. 750; with the following note to Baruch 6. 21: ‘Eadem sunt in Graeco, nisi excipias postrema; ώσαύτως δ καί oi αίλουροι, similiter autem et catti, absque & ante hirundines. Ms. etiam Corb. tollit eorum, post caput. Julius Firmicus 1. de error, prof, relig. c. 29. p. 176. e. legit: Supra corpus ejus, & caput volitant noctua, & hirundines, & aves similiter.‘ The text is the same in Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pontificis Max. jussu recogn. et Clementis VIII Auctoritatae, Ed. Taurini (1856), p. 498.

³ Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Ed. Schmidt, Jena (1858) s.vv.

⁴ ò [Simeon Stylites, Junior] φη αΐλονρον , Evagrius, Eccl. Hist. 6. 23. (c. 590 A.D.). ‘et aves, similiter autem et eati’ is printed in Vetus Testamentum Graecum juxta Septu. Interprètes, J. N. Jager, Paris (1855) vol. II, p. 557. But this appears to be a modern translation or version of the Greek of Codex Vaticanus on the opposite page. See note 1, where Sabatier distinguishes cattae from catti (αίλουροι). If catta in both Martial and Baruch is ‘bird’, then neo-Latin cattus (catus) masc. is the word for ‘cat’.

⁵ Kurtzgefasstes Exegetisches Handbuch zu d. Apok. d. Alt. Test., (1851) 1. 212.

⁶ Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (1876) 4. 2922. (Italics sic.)

⁷ Ib. 1. 249, 250. The text of Baruch is the Unrevised Old Latin. Jerome revised or translated only two books of the Apocrypha, Judith and Tobit, ib. 4. 3466 col. 2. The Old Latin Version is known to have been written and used in Africa, ib. 3452–3. Thus, as Hesychius was from Alexandria and Martial from Spain, the only recorded users of our words were provincials. This, beside the non-latinity of catta, suggests a provincialism. Hence the words, both Latin and Greek, might easily be misunderstood.

⁸ Fritsche, Einleitung 7.

⁹ Smith, op. cit., 1. 395.

¹⁰ Ib. loc. cit., note a. According to Fritsche, the Arabian translator took to be the ‘marten’. So the lexicons ‘weasel’, beside ‘cat’.