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156. Here it is tlie personal pronoun which has led him astray, 

 but this -would have been impossible if he had hiovcn the proper 

 case-government of the verb nan, "to see". The sentence reads 

 [64 /S foot] : 



atetnanekbe avete tollerato 



nau loro 



eneipetho-w questi mali. 



There is no meaning in his version: "ye have tolerated to them 

 [mthem?] these evils". The words mean: "ye have endured to 

 ?oo^ M/io» these evils ", for nau governs the directive e. 



157. So in the next column he has : avete pensato pensieri varii del 

 vostro operate opere anche diverse, where he has taken the Coptic nega- 

 tive perfect regent 2 pi. mpetn for the genitive of poss. adj. pron. 

 2 pi. ! The words mean: "ye have thought different thoughts, hut ye 

 ^wi-e 7<o^ done different deeds " : atetnmeeue ehenmeeue eusobe, 

 mpetnf henhbeue on eusoobe [64y 4]. 



158. The three fragments following are badly mutilated and their 

 restoration by emendation is not easy, but at least the emendations 

 attempted should be possible ones, and that is not the case in the 

 following [65 all]: 



a ne[up]lag^khnon de essendo 



nm[ina]au delle madri 



s[t6r]tr hitm .... conturhato dal 



Now, it is obvious that in the first line, it was a Greek word that 

 had to be dealt with, so that the problem was to read [. . .] 7rXay;^vov, 

 but his text and translation both show that he could not compass 

 the right word, ne-cnrXayxvov, "the bowels, the hearts, of the mothers 

 were troubled, &c." 



And what a grammatical inaccuracy to suggest the long 6 in 

 stortr ! 



159. His tentative translation of the previous portion is certainly 

 wrong, because the Coptic text he has given, will not bear it : li 

 hanno respinti con violenza chiamando (?) le lacrime dei pastori (?) che 

 sono i loro padri &c. Here respinti is certainly not a translation for 

 ntaujoolw, and chiamando is probably the " other side of the medal" 

 in the confusion of toh with tohm (cf. No. 63), and one does 

 not see why the (?) is put to the word pastori. The meaning of the 

 Bection^ as it stands, is something like this: "[tears] of children, as 

 when the wine [emris] of the young palm-trees [bah?], which had 



