Chapter 8

Notes

1. 1

   But certain codices read et parebat, “and was obedient,” in stead of apparebat.

2. 2

   κάδους.

3. 3

   πορθμεῖν.

4. 4

   ἀπόκρουσιν. The Codex Casinensis has apocrisin; but the Codex Bobiensis gives apocrusin.

5. 5

   The text gives τῆς ψυχῆς. But from the old Latin version, which has animarum, we may conjecture that τῶν ψυχῶν was read.

6. 6

   The Latin version has “vir perfectus,”—a reading which is due apparently to the fact that the author had mistaken the ἀήρ of the Greek for ἀνήρ. [See note 2, p. 176, supra.]

7. 7

   ὁ θερισμὸς ἀρχων. The version of Petavius has, “Sic et princeps alter, messor appellatus.” Perhaps the reading should be ὁ θερισμοῦ ἄρχων.

8. 8

   λοιμόν. Other codices give famem, as reading λιμόν, famine.

9. 9

   ἐὰν δὲ τὰ ἄνω τῆς ῥίζης πόνῳ σαλύσῃ. It may be also = And if the upper parts of the root shake under the exertion.