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imperative, " send thou". Secondly, anine does not mean " come 

 thou", but ''bring". And thirdly, epima does not mean "along 

 with", but it means "to this place". So that the three words 

 meant the following: "if these propositions seem right to thee, 

 King, whi/ then, send and bring hither our fellow-bishops whom thou 

 hast exiled". 

 56. [30, 5] : 



tote aflieleue nteunw allora chiamb tosto 



nci prro nwberetarios il capo de' suoi corrieri 



nexuseudynatos pe ...... 



hii tefconi etref bok e lo mandb 



takhy nsa nepiskopos ai vescovi santi. 



His note bears on the untnown exuseudynatos , which he took to 

 be e^oro-toSwaros, and then, as he "could not find it in the dic- 

 tionaries", he rendered it "chief". Just so, and he omits altogether 

 the very words which should have shown him what it is ! For the 

 word pe is copula to a clause e-u Sui/aros pe hn tefcom, "who 

 is powerful in his might", and the previous word should be no^rs, 

 " a swift messenger". 



The next article published in these Texts is the Sentences 

 (yvw/Aat) of the Sacred Synod. I do not propose to go through this 

 publication in detail, as M. B-evillout can very well defend his own 

 work, with which also I am not here concerned. Towards the end, 

 Prof. Rossi's version gets somewhat worse, and exhibits some remark- 

 able handling of Greek words, which calls for notice here. 



57. On page 91 of Prof. Rossi's translation we read the following 

 sentence: " Lo stolto crede che nessuno lo conoscera. Egli ignora 

 che trovasi nella vita come ad un convito". On looking to see what 

 the text of this curious passage was, the mystery was at once cleared 

 up [60, 12]: nfsown an je fo nonh nthe nw trapetes; i.e. 

 the words ad un convito, "at a banquet", are to be got out of 

 nwtrapetes. Why then, the word trapetes must be supposed 

 to be a deriv. of rpctTre^a ! It is the word SpaTrexT^s, "a runaway 

 slave": the fool is like a runaway slave, and God's eye is steadily 

 watchiner him all through life, is the idea in the writer's mind. 



