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87. On the next page we have a most comical perversion of the 

 original, set down without any note of douht or hesitancy. The 

 version is given thus : ' ' said the demon, why should I enter into 

 him, who is already possessed hy another demon of the love called 

 Poligamo" ? 



So Prof. Eossi : " tJie love called Polygamous ". 

 What is his text ? 



(kedaimon) etc pnie pe eumwte erof 

 je g'oleg^amos (sic). 



"another demon, viz. Love, whom they call golegamos". The 

 last word is not intelligible as it stands, of course, so Prof. Rossi has 

 emended it, into Tro\vyafKo<;. The writers on Folk-lore might add to 

 their stock of vocables the name of a new demon, Polygamous, then ? 

 But, — there is the Latin original to be reckoned with ; and it has : 



ut quid entrarem in eum, qui habebat 

 coLLEGAM lyEEUM amoris daemonem ? 



so that the mysterious golegamos, was no doubt a Copticised 

 collega mens, and therewith the Polygamous demon is exorcised ! 



88. And why has he left the text so, at [25 y foot], ntehieiabe 

 mme, seeing that it is plainly intended to mean, "the Lamb of 

 Truth ", being said of our Lord, te -hiaeibe. 



89. An entire column of his text, [26y 20] to [27a 30], is simply 

 paraphrased from the Latin, and the translation printed in italics, as 

 if the Coptic text were wanting ! 



90. At [28 y 4] is another half-column of Coptic text which is 

 slurred over with serious omissions. The whole point of the passage 

 was the omitted reference to pswntowe [28yl8] "the morning- 

 star", Lucifer, Yenus, whom they worshipped, and the translation 

 given fails to convey the slightest idea of either mpe saein sope 

 nteihe [y 12], or of aslampeue ebol epehwo! 



91. Again, he has given quite a wrong turn to the text at 

 [30 P foot] : 



nefmoste nmmonakhos detestava i monaci, 



etroeis ehe avevano sollecitudine 



enetsoop nau I per le cose che 



\ potevano loro accadere. 



But that is not the meaning : "who were anxious concerning the evils 

 which might hefal them", is certainly not the idea of the Coptic text. 



