The quest for Anchiton

[MarcoP]

The origin of the word certainly is due to unfamiliarity with Greek (not by the author of the Latin original, Leo of Naples, but by later copyists). I also checked a few manuscripts of Glossa Ordinaria (from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) but could find no occurrence of "anchiton", still the fact that it occurs in early printed editions seems significant. I wonder if the word passed from (copies of) the Historia to (copies of) the Glossa, or the other way round, or it's a case of coincidental parallel corruption (this sounds unlikely, but who knows...)