Atkinson — On Prof. Rossi's South- Coptic Texts. 79 



Here Prof. Rossi shows that he helieves that the words nte pbios 

 lite pehow mean " of the life of that day" ! The last nte is the 

 regent of the present subjunctive, and the clauses should be dis- 

 connected: "[drunkenness] and cares of this life, so that that day 

 come upon you like a snare", the passage being a " contaminatio " 

 of two verses, Luke xxi. 34, 35. Then he renders t]\(i perfect regent, 

 atetnsotm by an imperative ; why, I cannot conjecture. 



139. The paragraph at [45 a 1] conveys no idea of the real meaning, 

 and the latter half of it is signalised by the old error of confounding 

 ti with ji, for his translation runs : "they are ashamed of the poor 

 and of those who go to the church to celebrate the festival", though 

 the Coptic text says: "they cast shame on, they dishonour, the poor 

 and those that pass by, pretending that 'going to the toVoi of the 

 martyrs, we are [going to] celebrate ^7ie2r festival '" : 



eutisipe nnheke arrossiscono dei poveri 



mn netparag^e e di quelli che vanno 



eucnloice je 



eubek 



entopos nmmartyros alia chiesa [note] 



eneire mpeusa per celehrare lafesta. 



Prof. Eossi has mistranslated 1 1 s i p e ; omitted or mistranslated 

 irapaye ; dropped out without mention the next words ; added a 

 note that the words he has rendered "the Church" mean "the 

 places of the martyrs ", which only makes more apparent his own 

 mistake; translated en. -e ire as if an infinitive (!), and finally ignored 

 the poss. pron. peu in the last word: six bad mistakes, for which 

 I can see no reasonable excuse. 



140. And, as if for the sole purpose of demonstrating his 

 ignorance of tisipe, he commits the same fault again in this very 

 column [45 a 27], although his attention was called to the absurdity 

 of the passage, and he puts his (?). In this case it was a quotation, 

 too, from 1 Cor. xi. 22, where the original has Karatcrxi^Vere. 



141. On this very page he edits [45 y 10] : 



tai [the] questa e la maniera, 



esare ndaimon rjoeis con cui i demoni dominano 



epettahe sopra colui che oatturano. 



Now this is an. utterly impossible rendering, so bad that I cannot 

 speak too strongly about it : 



epet-tahe " ow him whom they capture'''' ! 



Where is there any hint of " they " .^ and how could the proclitic 



