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100. And his last clause is wrong also [54 a 19], for lie Bas con- 

 jectured nta[tak]e ntapsykhe, which is utterly impossible, as 

 take is the proclitic form: the word was, of course, tiose, "to 

 lose, be mulcted in", and has nothing to say to tako , "to destroy". 



101. As on a previous passage, we find the word hooke wrongly 

 rendered, at[57^27]: 



hooke nnefspirowe cingetegli i fianchi 



hS heneieib mpenipe di cingoli di ferro. 



But what could be the appropriateness of such an order as this : 

 '■^ gird his flanks with girdles of iron, and cast salt on his wounds"? 

 The words mean: ^^ scrape his sides with hoofs [hooks] of iron &c.", 

 answering to the Greek, rot? oVu^t ras TrXevpas avrov KaTa^dvare. 



102. At [58 a 5] we have a passage concerning which we are left 

 in complete darkness. Here Prof. Eossi has simply "borrowed" the 

 Greek in his translation : " (are we to sacrifice) to the infernal Pluto'''' ? 

 The Greek text, ■^(Qov'n^ IIAoi^Twvt, is here calmly inserted, without 

 any indication in the version that the Coptic words were, to him, an 

 unknown quantity: nna ton euspet (?) [ep]eset m[pk]ah. 

 That is the state in which he has left his text, though he had the 

 Greek to give him the clue : he has simply set forth the letters with 

 an appended (?). The exact shape of his printed text is as follows, 

 with the correction : 



• una e n ki 



ton euspet (?) ^aivevs 



[ep]eset 55 p-et-hipeset m 



[pk]ah phah. 



i.e. the text was : 



7] n- aiSwveus p-ethipeset mpkah, 

 " or to Aidoneus [Pluto] who is under the earth = xPovio<s. 



Of this identity, Prof. Eossi had not the remotest idea ! 



103. Again, he translates at [58)8 28] : 



nsnaanekhe an eteh non coiifonderd mai 



tme mn pcol la verifd colla menzogna. 



Just so ; because the Greek has ov o-vyKpLvei ttj dX-q6e.ia to vj/evSo';. 

 But his mai, "never" [of. 66a 2], shows that he did not under- 

 stand it: he read eneh, "for ever", whereas it is e-teh, "to 

 mix", in the proclitic form: "it will not tolerate {dvex^iv) to mix 

 the truth with the lie". 



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