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60. With the third Text in this Fasciculus I do not propose to 

 deal in detail, but shall give one specimen of his text. It occurs in 

 his 5th Fragment [70, 13] : 



seo' gar iiblle iici neplanos etmmau nthe etfmwwt 

 mmovr nci psatanas. saiijihbr (?) ga.v hos ag'g^elos iite 

 pwoein sautfexapta mphet liuibalhet nete ^rntau miuau 

 nipeuhet efo' none. 



Of the whole of this passage he does not translate a single word, 

 and the reason plainly is found in his confessed ignorance of saujihhf. 

 There are other mistakes of reading in his text, but that word was 

 the bugbear. 



It is just the inversion of letters, of which we have already had 

 an example above; just as obr should have been orb, so here 

 hbf should have been hfb, "forma", "shape". Then we have 

 to read not sau, but saf, which his papyrus assuredly has, and 

 and thus we get saf jihfb, "he assumes a form", for it is nothing 

 but the fieTaa-xqfJ-aTL^eTai of 2 Cor. xi. 14. 



The version is quite plain: " for blind are those erring ones, like 

 those whom Satan slays [nthe nnet . . •] ; for he is wont to assume 

 a form as an angel of light, till he deceives [reading exapata, of 

 course, e^aTrara-] the heart of the simple, whose hearts are of stone". 



■ lY. 



The third Fasciculus (1885) contains three texts: part of the 

 life of the anchorite Aphow ; incidents bearing on the story of 

 Eudoxia, especially the vision enjoining on her to seek Christ's 

 tomb ; and a portion of a panegyric on John the Baptist. As to 

 the first, M. Eevillout is again the occasion of heart-searchings to 

 Prof. Rossi, for what he deems the unsatisfactory edition of the 

 French Savant : "so numerous are the alterations of the text, that 

 I have felt bound, in the interest of science, to republish it in its 

 integrity, &c.", Pref. p. 3, 



I should never complete my task were I to set down all the errors 

 that deform Prof. Rossi's version ; the tenses are translated in the 

 vague way that Egyptologists have familiarized us with: noi non 

 osiamo, for " we have not been able to dare " [8 y 19] ; onde io ne fui 

 molto afflitto, for " so that they were greatly grieved" [9 y 21]; the 

 omission altogether of the words auo mpe kelaau saje [10a 25], 



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