44 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



text certainly says no such thing; it says, "for the great glory in 

 which we came''\ The writer did not mean that glory accrued to 

 them from the King's anger, but that they did not heed his anger, 

 hecause of God's favour. 



49. On the same page, another preposition has caused him to 

 pervert his original much more seriously [18, 24] : 



entun ce nesbowe dove sotio le dottrine 



mn ciiismse ed il culto 



nta iiekeidt honw etootk che il padre tuo ti ordino 



efnabok eratf mpnwte di prestare a Dio. 



''Where are the doctrines and the service thy father ordered thee 

 to pay to God"? The editor's translation of the last line is utterly 

 wrong ; the word eratf is a cpd. preposition, meaning " at the 

 feet of", and the phrase efnabok eratf mpnwte means, "when 

 he [thy father] was about to appear before God", 



50. [20, 11]: 



etrasiihise io soffrirb 



mn nasbr melofs eo' miei compagni pazientemente (?) 



sante pnwte na' nan Jinche Dio aV7'd misericordia di not. 



As to the meaning of his pazientemente, and that too followed by a (?), 

 I am quite at a loss. As melos must be a Greek word, the problem 

 here is to determine how the idea of "patiently" can be got out 

 of /xeXos ! It is, of course, only nonsense ; the words were 



mn na- sbf -melos , " with my fellow -members". 



This is quite a common use of sbf, "fellow-", followed by a 

 defining noun, sbf episkopos , " a fellow-bishop", &c. 



51. In the following passage there is no insight shown, but mere 

 guess-work and helplessness. The bishops are telling how the King 

 had treated them : "he ordered his executioners to bind us hand and 

 foot, and to scuttle the boat under us" [22, 5] : 



eaiirhut dopoche ehbero navigato 



eiiekro molto alto {pel mare) 



aukaan ebol ci abbandonarono. 



anon de Noi poi tenevamo 



nere ncij nipenhet le nostre mani 



pors ebol stese ml petto .... 



natsarx de 



iisebel ebol an 



