230 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



6. The next lines continue the misconceptions : Vhomme marche 

 duns uti ensemble d'imayes sans savoir qui les a rasseinblees. 



Why, such aversion makes ef-s6wh ehwn a participle agreeing 

 with hikon, and makes nnim the grammatical suij'ectl 



prduie luoose hn whikon man walks in an eiKtav, 



efsowh ehwn gathering up [riclies] 



enfsown an je while not knowing 



efsowh mmow nnim. for whom he is gathering them. 



A literal version of the LXX ev et/coVt hLairopeverai av^pcoTros , 



6'i]cravpL^€L Koi ov yLvw(TK€L Tcvi crvvdiei avrd, Ps. xxxviii. 7, "which he 

 quotes as the reference. 



7. And then, still icith the quotation hefore him, he goes on, 

 incomprehensibly, as follows : 



Seigneur, enseigne-moi ma fin . . ., car je sais ee qui me manque 

 et je mettrai mi frein a ma louche pour que ma langue ne peche pas. 

 Car voici que tu Vas faite coupahle de mes crimes, et ma force est comme 

 la force de ceux qui sont devant toi. 



It is certainly not, car je sais, but afin que je sache, as he gives in 

 the Corrigenda, so that his attention must have been called to this 

 very passage. He further corrects : et ne pecherai pas par ma langm ; 

 and he also emends : ma force n^est rien devant toi. But, the middle 

 clause was a problem he could not solve. The words are aktre 

 nahow eras, which cannot mean anything but "thou hast made 

 my days to become old ". And what is his version ? Evidently thus : 



ak-tre thou hast made 



na-how my crimes 



eras upon it [my tongue] [!] 



Fancy a Greek scholar supposing that yXwcro-a was of the masculine 

 gender! As if eras could have represented the masculine word 

 p-las, ' the tongue' ; and this quite apart from the utter impossibility 

 of such a construction as ak-tre . . . eras, or of na- how meaning 

 ' my crimes' ! Tti Vas faite coupahle de mes crimes [!] 



8. The Greek words are often a difficulty to M. Bouiiant, who 

 quotes St. Paul as saying : Les hiens des villes d'ici-ias cesseront d'etre, 

 mais nous sommes citoyens du del par le Christ. This he declares to 

 be from Ephes. ii. 1 9, which is curious and noteworthy ! But let us 

 examine his text [184, 3] : 



(a) mn tanpolis mpeima esnaco, 



les hiens des villes d'ici-has cesse>-ont d'etre [!!] 



