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Perhaps the place where the bodies of the faithful are
buried, the cimiterium or coemeterium, can be inside the
church ? The word is a loan from Greek to komêstêrion
= a sleeping room, a burial place (LSJ, p 968, col 1).
See Du Cange, II, p 329, col 2
[ See http://tinyurl.com/yuedo2 ]
CIMITERIUM, pro Coemeterium
II. p 388, col. 1
COEMETERIUM, Locus in quo humantur fidelium corpora.
COEMETERIUM, Ecclesia, in qua scilicet fidelium corpora
humantur.
Mata
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Subject: [M-R] CIMITARIUM = ??? Cemetery
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Dear Friends,
I am having a problem with translating / understanding a word in a Breton
Chronicle (The Chronicon Britannicum as transcribed in Dom Morice's Preuves,
vol. 1 col 103 to be precise.)
Here is both the original Latin and an English translation.
[M]CIV Obiit Comes Mathias Nannetensis, Hoeli Comitis filius. Hic vero hoc
eodem anno cimiterium beatorum Petri & Pauli violare, consilio suorum
Baronum praesumpserat, res Canonicorum Nannetensis Ecclesiae injuste
diripiendo, unde manifestissime apparet divina ultione ipsum suosque
coadjuctores ipso anno morti esse datos.
1104 Count Mathias of Nantes died, the son of Count Hoel [the late Duke of
Brittany]. This same year, this same man had, with the collaboration of his
barons, presumed to violate the cemetery of the Blessed Peter and Paul [=
Nantes Cathedral], unlawfully carrying off the property of the canons of
that church. Following which, later that same year he and his fellow
[scoundrels] met their deaths through what was manifestly an expression of
divine retribution.
My problem is the exact meaning of the word "CIMITERIUM" in THIS context.
Obviously the Latin word is the origin of the English "Cemetery" = Burial
Ground, but how do you carry off property from a burial ground ?
(Necrophillia!! - I don't think so.)
Any help gratefully received.
Brenda M C.
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