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149, the Hebrew hv (gal), the corrupted ^pe<i, i?X (el). G. 

 translates it "with." 



150. See 97, 28. G. takes this figure for " my," because he 

 knew not that the possessive suffix always stands after the sub. 

 stantive. 



151, the notorious letters ki (See Nos. 48, 54), giving cot, 

 image, G. brought out " with my words" by means of his new 

 syntax, and changing the singular into the plural. 



152. The following words signify, according to G., "thou 

 didst grant to me the oil of gladness," but I am unable to say by 

 what artifices this beaming nonsense was elicited. The ligature 

 of the solar disk with the ostrich feathers, so often occurring, sig- 

 nifies I'r, mk^ y.upcoc, i'O (mag), mhuj, the mighty Lord, as we 

 have seen, PI. i, a^ d; v. 43, 122, 124, G. ^E. 65, 271. This 

 group commencing with n, the sign of a casus, I do not under- 

 stand how these hieroglyphs could be taken for "didst" or "grant," 

 and not for a substantive. 



153, recurring again (No, 158), where it signifies: for thee., 

 for thy behalf. I translate the group "for thee," as the so-called 

 parallelismus membrorum requires. G. takes Jik again for thou y 

 in spite of the Coptic grammar. 



154. The clew, as we have seen {(id. G. ^E. 112, No. 586), 

 called nn (bad), ^ort, expresses in numberless places, as well as 

 the pullet, the plural termination ni (foth), and after human 

 members the word 12 (bad) membrum. See PI. xxxi. 434. 

 Hence we have to translate, " who made," or " the maker." G, 

 interprets, " grant to me" ; of which I cannot find an iota. 



155-56. Brugsch Bey has been so kind as to transform for him 

 the human nose (23. g'ab) into a head. Instead of kcut, iterum, G. 

 brings out "oil." This rcot refers to the afore-mentioned multi- 

 tude of joys caused by Vespasian, See 136, Our passage there- 

 fore reads thus, " the image of the Almighty Lord for thee, who 

 made again a multitude of joys" ; and not " thou didst grant to 

 me the oil of gladness," which is a downright mistranslation. 



157, A e<pe, by making. This is the fourth group correctly 

 translated by G., namely, " in that thou didst," 



158 is again nA.R, for thee, and not " thou," as G, imagined. 

 See No, 153. 



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