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129, the notorious pupil of the eye, d.'.VAo^T-, signifying the let- 

 ters a/-, as Plutarch says, "to make," also signifies " I made." 



130, noG-, i"|j (nuk), which occurs farther on (139), obviously 

 expresses magnitudo, gloria, gloriosus. G. takes the group for 

 "•thou," which blunder is proof positive that our Chst. is totally 

 ignorant of the Coptic ; for ne<K signifies tibi^ and not tu. Hence 

 the translation of the passage, "what thou hast done for me," is 

 absurd. He ought to have translated thus : I made the glory or 

 sublimity of that man who, etc. 



LSI, 11 ^uj. of the man, and not '-fur me." See 49, 28, 1 11, 11 8. 



132. The owl, called w.oT"A.iv2«L, expresses not only mlk, but also 

 w/, vir ; for instance, in the optative AVHpe, the Lat. amare, velle 

 (T. S. xiii. xxxvi. etc.), and in -[h'O (melek). See PI. xxxi. 431 6. 



lo-J. The Hebrew ^2: (ntbel), nablium, signifies no'^ipi, bonus, 

 dyoMuu. G. ^^. 95, No. 493. G. translates Nos. 132 and 133, 

 " to their advantage" ; but, alas, he omitted kg, intervening be- 

 tween "advantage" and " their." The said groups express "lov- 

 ing to benefit together with his family." 



131, *<\pev, X"ip (qara), signifies very often rg. T. S. v. vii. xix. 

 xxi. xxiv. XXV. etc.; R. S. ii. 7, v. 22, ix. 20, x. 41, xiii. 55; 

 G..^. 48, No. 143. 



135, so often occurring in our bilingual and other inscriptions, 

 and signifying "his," in the plural ol abzou or ol auvfou^ vanished 

 in the Coptic and Hebrew literature, but reappears in the German 

 seitz, seine, and the French sofi, which probably originated from 

 sunus, suni, contracted into siius, sui. G. translates the same 

 group " their," but there is no referrible object to this " their." 

 In the following it is specified by what works Vespasian bene- 

 fitted his subjects. 



136. See No. 122. 



187. The notorious figure of a fox, called 6evujd.p, the Greek 

 ^aaodpiov, fox, a. £fvK<\p, probably refers to the root npi (biqer), 

 observare. For b in the name of Busiris is expressed by the 

 fox-head, and the name of king Bicheres is, on Manetho's Turin 

 autograph, represented by the same figure (see PI. xxxi. 432, b) ; 

 even the T. S. expresses by a fox, upon a temple, Ttzepoifopo;:^ 

 i.e. astronomical observer. The fox was an unaccountable mys- 

 tery to Mr. G. 



