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"envy," it cannot mean "the state of one who hates evil". The 

 lexicon gives a form refmespethow , " maleficus, " which is much 

 more to the pui'pose, as from it we should get an abstract term, 

 meaning " maleficentia" ; but it would not bring us to the understand- 

 ing of the Greek word which was the puzzle to Prof. Rossi. 



Now, this very word does occur in the Coptic Bible, Prov. 

 xxi. 24, where Ciasca has a note, disqualifying it, "prefmeste 

 pro prefmeeue" ; but this disqualification must be taken off, as our 

 text shows that it is the right Coptic word. And what is the word in 

 LXX. Prov. xxi. 24 ? fx-vrja-tKaKei. Just so : the word in our text 



was 



mLnJesi|_J£aJi£:ia , fJLvrjcnKaKLa. 



The two passages show that mest- was used in Coptic to represent 

 the Greek ixvrjcri-, " to remember," and that it has nothing to do with 

 either moste, "to hate", or mise, " to generate'. 



And with this specimen, I pass on to the Frammenti Diversi in 

 the second part of this Fasciculus. So far the Second Volume of 

 Prof. Rossi's texts has shown itself to be worse than the Pirst Volume: 

 the remaining fragments carry on the demonstration. 



167. Thus, I should have liked to see a very different rendering 

 of [71 a 6]: 



henkehte lomhi 



eumeh enanww pieni di venusta. 



for "to be filled «^eYA", is meh n, and not meh e; nanww is not 

 a substantive, but a verb with plural affix, and the indefinite e pre- 

 fixed, to make it participial, so that the two last words are eu-meh, 

 "full", and e-nanw-w, "beautiful'. His translation exhibits 

 entire ignorance of the mechanism of the verbal system; just as on the 

 same column [a 17] his rendering "come un artista poteva cosi farlo", 

 shows that he had no notion of the function of ene, which he evidently 

 took to be the imperfect regent, {come) poteva, as if it had been e-nere ! 



168. Here is a passage in which the noun is the principal cause of 

 stumbling [72 fi 3] : 



.... emn 



. . . mmanseleet la veste (?) nuziale 



to hidok che e in te. 



5te rof La sua porta 



torn nteunw e tosto chiusa, 



nfti mmof etootw e sa7-d dato 



nSbasanisterion ai tormenti. 



