480 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



unless we take the long Latin e to be a proper rendering of the 

 Greek a before a double consonant. If this is possible, it would 

 satisfy the meaning of all the passages, I think. 



P.S. — Since writing the above, I find that this view was 

 taken by Sahnasius ; and I see that Professor Nettleship, in the 

 " Journal of Philology,' - thinks it possible that dierectus may be 

 a bastard form from £tapp>/yj'v/Lu. — F.W.H. 



