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65. Here again we have the old ignorance of the right "word 

 where his text was obviously faulty. At [34 y 10] is a passage 

 which he has rendered: "we ordain that every man should carry 

 the rubbish of his house towards the place of this I^azarene". 



That is mere guessing, for his text, as he has edited and emended 

 it, shows that no light had dawned upon him as to its real construction. 

 This is his text [34 y 10]: 



rome nim etnanejntn (?) mpefei eb[olh]5 netnji 

 elaau ntopos nsa ptopos mpinaxoraios. 



Here there are three egregious errors; for netnji has no meaning 

 of any kind, ebolhn is quite impossible, and etnanejntn could 

 not even be tortured into a semblance of meaning. It was not ntn, 

 but eitn, "dung", "who shall fling the dung of his house out", 

 ebol; and then the n should have been prefix;ed to the next word : 

 nnetnji, "ye shall not take (it anywhere else than, &c.)", i.e. 



not 



etnanejntn mpefei ebolhn netnji 

 but, _ _ ^ 



etnanej eitn mpefei ebol^ nnetnji^ &c. 



66. "What can be the reason for his rendering euhek, " shaved ", 

 instead of "girt" [36a 16], "eunuchs according to their custom 

 shaved and ready to execute orders " ? Or the sense of conjecturing 

 61m [36 y 13], and translating, "he emlraced her" ? There is no 

 such verb as 61m ehwn; it was 61 ehwn, "he brought her in ". 

 And why does he put sic at the word nesiwr [35 y 13] and trans- 

 late '■'■her eunuchs", when the text had, quite rightly, '■'the eunuchs 

 and the virgins"? And where is the justification for publishing the 

 following translation of the text given at [39 a 20] : 



ten^v ce town and now arise 



nteanakhorei ne and retire 



ehwn epwtamion into thy chamber 



je afr naa \? and perforni\ 

 nnwsynaxis thy crvva^eis (communions) 



nto mn nwsbrparthenos thou and thy fellow-virgins. 



jS'ow, here there was very good ground for putting a (?) after the 

 words afr nau, which certainly are not of obvious meaning. But 

 he has slurred over the whole passage thus : " now then arise and 

 go to thy business with thy damsels ", va alle tue faccende colle tue 

 donzelle (!) 



