I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf appletrees, I must need show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language, as it does in ours.
mālus², i, f., Gr. μηλέα, // I. an appletree: “malus bifera,” Varr. R. R. 1, 7: “et steriles platani malos gessere valentes,” Verg. G. 2, 70: “malus granata,” the pomegranate, Isid. 17, 7, 6: “felices arbores putantur esse quercus…malus, etc.,” Macr. S. 3, 20, 2.