Atkijstson — On Prof. RossVs South-Coptic Texts. 95 



Aowres of the Greek, by "we content ourselves with" [30 y8 9]; 

 translates wrongly : nasope gar an ensaat [^ 13] by "«/ it stall 

 happen to ns to be deficient", whereas the Coptic says, " we shall not 

 become deficient", ovSev iXXctipofxev ; thins off the words takha ro 

 [/? 22] into "now", ora, whereas they mean "perhaps even"; edits 

 ji tsabo [31 /3 16] for " to teach"; gives si volsero, for the hn wjer 

 of the text [32 a 2], (o/Ayaa) araKToi/, and winds up the paragraph by 

 rendering : " there ca7ne from the depth of the sea a storm, which 

 overwhelmed me", whereas it is [32 a 21] : '■' I came into the depths 

 &c.", aiei enetsek nthalassa, of. Ps. Ixviit. 3. 



190. The next paragraph contains two perversions of the text 

 [32/3 11]: 



sausek tepsykhe V anima resta 



euhto[int]in attenebrata 



mn wtilie col gusto. 



" If the throat gives itself up to tasting a multitude of victuals and 

 abundant wine, the soul remains darkened with the taste ". But the 

 words mean, "the soul is dragged into cloudiness and intoxication''''. 

 There is no mention of "the taste", tipe ; and the construction 

 of mn by "with the taste", is quite impermissible. The Coptic 

 htomtm, "darkness" is a thinning-off of the Greek expression: 

 7rpo9 fxiQ-qv Kol /cotras rrjv if/vx'y]v Karac^^etpet. (Perhaps the papyrus 

 has not hto . . . m but hmhm, "licentiousness".) 



191. And a few lines below [32 y8 20] : 



'wpartlienos una vergine 



eauparadidw iuinos che si e data 



ebolhitn neshmhal in halia de' suoi servi. 



But the text says nothing about the virgin " having given herself into 

 the power of her servants " ; it says: " who has heen letrayed by her 

 servants". Prof. Kossi seems to have the dimmest possible notion 

 of the meaning of the prepositions, hitn being his especial plague. 

 There are hundreds of mistakes in these texts, arising from the 

 confusion of the Coptic prepositions. 



192. In the very next column he has rendered it wrongly, and 

 put his text wrong also [33 a 15] : 



nai eusooii costoj-o, che ercmo 



liitm prokh nel fuoco 



nteuepithymia della loro concupicenza. 



But hitm does not mean "in" ; it means " by", "by means of" ; 



