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126. When real difficulties begin, the editor has very little help 

 to give, but often slides over by a translation which is of no service ; 

 e. gr. [37 ;8 15] : " the Governor said to her", 



aianekhe mino io ti voglio risparmiare ; 



tone iito houte non condannarti 



mpr tiso' esost da te stessa ! 



There is not a word of this in the text: "I wish to spare thee; do 

 not condemn thyself of thyself" ; the meaning of the words is wholly 

 different ! 



They mean: ^'^ I have home with thee very much (tone), hut thou 

 (hoote) hast not spared to insult we" (e-sost); mpf should be 

 mpe, for mpf is impossible in this passage. 



And with this particularly bad specimen, I shall leave this Fasci- 

 culus, as the remaining fragments are too scrappy to make it worth 

 while spending time in their elucidation here. 



VII. 



We now come to the Second Volume, of which the first Fasci- 

 culus was published in 1888, containing fragments of a Discourse by 

 St. Athanasius on the Virgin Mary, and of John, Archbishop of Con- 

 stantinople, on the envy shown by the priests and Pharisees towards 

 our Lord, together with other fragments, 



127. The text is very broken, and I shall not find fault with the 

 arrangement of the leaves, but the translation of what is given leaves 

 much to be desired. How does he intend the words : the ntaunojn 

 nmto hn thalassa, [6a 1] to be construed? Certainly he cannot 

 get nei gorghi del mare out of nmto hn th. Why does he persist 

 in printing the non-existent word sw for " to know" ? e. gr. [6 a 9] 

 mpei sw Showt eneh instead of the proper proclitic fonn swn 

 howt; cf. [;8 21]. Or, how can the words "who is he whom /have 

 seen ?" and " she said &c.," be obtained from the text given [10/8 1] 

 nim pentafnau, and afjoos ! But these are minor objections, 

 over which I must pass. 



128. But this is not a small error [27)3 13] : 



rdme gli uotnini 



hen epow je loro vicini, dicendo, 



ere etebol hn nim d' onde sono ? 



Here it is plain that he takes nim to be = what place ; but it is not 



