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398. This frequently recurring group, repeatedly translated on 

 Hermapion's Obelisk by dx/MOitorjaaci, signifies splendor, gloria, 

 Boer, qcoo'fe, darpdrrreiP. For the hen (gallina cristata), called 

 fiH2fi:, expresses d (G.yE. 68, 294), and the figure of the breast 

 Rific furnished Jk (G. ^. 49, 153)- Hence the same group is 

 sometimes rejolaced by the synonyme fioirfioir, fulgor (see PL 

 xxxii. 456), e.g. T. B. PL 1. G., on the contrary, spells it 

 '• Necht," in order to form the name of the new country " Sam- 

 Tati-Taf-Necht" of Italy, hitherto unknown. 



399-400 are the well-known words n-«^HuoT, vobis. G., how- 

 ever, abuses n, the sign of the casus, in order to make out "may," 

 a new discovery indeed. See 407. 



401. The names of the viper and the door-bar being 2C£t and 

 cfie (G.^-E. 79, 32S, 87, 43-1), we obtain the word crici, exaltare. 

 G. probably translates the group, "be blessed." 



402. See 400. 



40b', the notorious letters //;/, forming the word T6.jA.ie, creare. 

 G. reads, " may repeat." 



404, Since the child, called ^ij Cgul), xopoi;, expresses kr 

 (PL ii.y", 116), it expresses ^"i: igul), acivA, mansion, and not, as 

 G. fancied, a part of the word " repeat." 



405, the not unfamiliar ne, and which G. took for "others." 

 Comp. T. S. xii. where it is translated by ok xai 



41)6, as we have seen (221, 236, 243, 343), called .i^p^^, X"ip 

 (qara), involves the word *pc, yiT (gera), which means cibus, 

 aliment in general. According to G., it signifies " name." 



407. See 399. G., having forgotten that nrHnoTr means vo6is, 

 and never vos, brings out "your." 



408. The image of a branch of a tree refers to the root ]*y (ek 

 or ok), lignum, arbor, the corrupted ujh, the Arabic Ni'V (aga), 

 the Chaldean ys (ag), lignum, oC-o<:^ related with the Ger. Ast, 

 Sanscr. asthi, Lat. hasta, perhaps also with oci, tamariscus ; for 

 which reason it expresses very often ak, e.g. in ne^ujTe, a. uc^rtg, 

 (Young's Hier. PL 65), likewise evcro> axilla, the shoulders (of 

 Serpentarius), and stands for ak. PL xxxii. 456 ; T. S. xxxvL 

 Accordingly our group expresses wi', viz. TXD (meak), inde a 

 longo tempore. G. brings out "for years," and he will be so kind 

 as to show in what language mk signifies " for years." 



