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■which means, "who were anxious aloiit the property they Jiad^^ to 

 represent the Latin : in futurum reservarent sua. 



92. E'er is it possible to extract his translation out of the text 

 given at [32 y 3] : se non fosse questa cosa inutile, io verrei con te, 

 where the Copt writes: nereweu gar hm phob pe auo eije 

 neinaei nmme pe. 



93. Again, at [34 y 29] the text says, " (he came to a little city 

 called) Aphroditon, that is to say Fetpeh"; but Prof. Rossi has left 

 out this native name, which is the Coptic abridgment of the Egyptian 

 name pa neb tep ahe, p-etpeh, which the Arabs read atfih, cf. "Piankhi- 

 Meriamen" (p. 5, note ^\ De Eouge). 



94. So again [35 a 5], his text has: afmisthw nse ncamwl 

 nse hbes ete ndromas ne, but the version only says, "he hired 

 100 dromedaries". Now one would have liked to know what he got 

 out of the Coptic words, "camwl nse hbes, that is to say, Spoixd?^'? 

 I do not think the words nse hbes bear a meaning: at least I do 

 not know any; it is not impossible that the papyrus has nsetbes, 

 "camels of head-binding", ^'haltered camels". In any case, this 

 word should not have been slurred over without notice. 



95. Or, compare the text and translation at [36 a 10], in describ- 

 ing the caves in the rock into which Father Antony was wont to 

 retire to avoid the crowds of visitors : 



eausetsotw erano scavate nella roccia 



eaukotw an e non si enfrava 



eimetei en ro mmate che per una sola porta. 



" caves cut out in the rock, and into which one entered only by one 

 door". How many doors does one usually enter a place by, might 

 reasonably be asked : but I want to know, where is the one door in 

 the Coptic ? Did Prof. Rossi take the en before ro to be Iv ?? 

 But if language can say things clearly, it is the statement made, that 

 "they did not build them except the doors only"! There is no 

 non si entrava, and the word en ro must be e-nro, "the doors". 



The Latin states distinctly : verum hse in vivo excisae saxo, ostia 

 tantum addita habebant. 



The next text is that of the martyrdom of St. Ignatius. Kow, as 

 according to Prof. Rossi, p. 94, note(^), "with the exception of this 



(our Coptic text), all the other texts have been published in 



[Lightfoot's] Apostolic Fathers''^ it is natural to add, as he does, that 

 his publication ' ' will serve to fill up the gap left by that illustrious 

 sch.olar". Certainly, if it had been well done ; but it is not. For he 



