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83. Neither will the following text and translation bear analysis 

 [9 a 25] :— 



tai ce te the ( questo fii Vordine di vita 



ntaQek [tt]axis e[bol { che egli segui 



I 



pef]bi[os si 



The last line is not translated, and as he has emended it, is untrans- 

 lateahle, for most assuredly it does not mean, " the order of life which 

 Tie followed ^^ : pefbios is not dependent on taxis, and si has no 

 meaning at all ! 



84. And what objection does he find in the phrase seos an, 

 [12a 32], that he should append hereto his query? Did he doubt 

 that OS was the ^resew^ stem of asai , "to become numerous ", and 

 that seos an means " they are not numerous " ? 



85. And here also [17 y 4] he has misconceived the original and 

 slurred over the difficulties of his own text : 



tote petmmau mentre qiiegli 



afos ebol gridava 



af ork e scongiurava, 



mpefmakh 



afhiwe epkah battendo la terra 



ntefape col capo. 



But mpefmakh means "his neck" and may not be omitted, so 

 that it is evident that his scongiurava cannot stand : the word was 

 rike , "to bend''\ and not ork "to swear^\ The Latin original 

 plainly says : " cumque ille ejularet, et reflexa cervice texvoxQ. veiiicQ 

 tangeret". And whence does he get his " clamore veniente da 

 lungi''\ as a version of neu ebol , [18 a 2] ? 



86. Again, [22 y8 12]: 



esmivte chiamando 



mpran mpseresem il nome del giovanetto, 



esvrorp ebol 



mpnoc nwds 



mm pme mpsere sem 



ntafei ehwn che venisse a lei. 



The last line cannot be thus translated; it means "which has 

 entered". The omitted words explain it clearly: "uttering the 

 great desii'e and the love of the youth which had entered her 

 [heart]". The Latin might have been suggestive : magnitudo quippe 

 amoris se in furorem verterat. 



