Chapter 24

Notes

1. 1

   Reading “patefaceret” for the “partum faceret” of Codex Casinensis.

2. 2

   The text gives sine hoc uno. But perhaps Routh is right in suggesting muro for uno = without this wall.

3. 3

   Some suppose that Archelaus refers here to the taking of Charræ by the Persians in the time of Valerianus Augustus, or to its recapture and restoration to the Roman power by the Eastern king Odenathus during the empire of Gallienus.

4. 4

   The ballista was a large engine fitted with cords somewhat like a bow, by which large masses of stone and other missiles were hurled to a great distance.

5. 5

   The sense is obscure here. The text gives, “non substantia id est proposito adversarius quis dejecit,” etc. Migne edits the sentence without an interrogation. We adopt the interrogative form with Routh. The idea perhaps is, Did no adversary with materials such as the kings of earth use, and that is as much as to say also with a determinate plan, overthrow, etc.?

6. 6

   The Codex Casinensis has “nec mirum putandum est consortio,” etc. We read with Routh and others, si ejus consortio, or quod ejus consortio, etc.

7. 7

   John i. 5.

8. 8

   The text gives simply, sicut enim hæc. Routh suggests hæ.

9. 9

   Reading illæsis oculis for the illius oculis of Codex Casinensis.