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67. In continuation of this passage, he makes another impossible 

 emendation [39 a z] : 



" I shall assemble all the magnates and bid them 



etreus[o]te favorire(?) quelli 



nuetneu nmme che andranno con te." 



What sote may be presumed to mean, I cannot guess, and indeed 

 favorire was not clear to himself, as he puts his (?) after it. The 

 word that should have been conjectured was sobte, "to prepare" : 

 " I shall bid the magnates prepare those who are going with thee ", 



68. His version of the lines beginning at' [42 a 33] runs thus : 

 " oh ye chief among the Jews, ye whose blindness is not measurable, 

 and ye counsel the world to remain blind. And so it was necessary 

 for me to take them away from your guidance, because ye are fools ". 



I do not quite understand what he intended to mean by this 

 "version ", but it is plain that he thinks it is the true meaning, for 

 he says in his note : "in the rendering of this passage I have adhered 

 rather to the sense [than to the words] ". 



Yery well ; we shall see. The passage runs thus : 



o nnoc nniwdai o grandi fra i Giitdei 



nai ete mp'irastw ( voi, la cui cecitu 



5ci teumntblle ( non e misurahile, 



alia tetSjisojne e consigliate 



etoik'winene il mondo 



eaas nblle a rimaner cieco. 



ne [pjetesse g'ar eroi pe JEppero era necessario a me 



eh e nnetn8[aa]p 



entw ebolhn tetnape di toglierli dalla vostra guida, 



je ntetn henatsipe poiche siete degli scempi. 



Here note first the translation of lines 2 and 3 : he took rastw to be 

 a neuter verb, meaning, "to be measurable". Now rast can be 

 found in the Copt.-Lat. lexicon, with an assigned meaning, com- 

 mensurari, whatever that delightful Latin word may mean ; but, how 

 about plural suffix -w? It has nothing to do with "measurable"; 

 it means " suffice them ", being the irregular pronominal form of the 

 verb rose, "to suffice"; so that the statement was, "[ye are] 

 persons whose (own) blindness did not suffice them, but ye are taking 

 counsel against the whole world, to make it blind also". 



So much for the persons addressed. Now for the substance of the 

 address. Eudoxia had summoned the high priests, in order to extract 



