Julius Africanus

Footnotes

Introductory Notice to Julius Africanus.

^[1060] The term in the original (ἀλκλαρίαις) is one altogether foreign to Greek, and seems to be of Arabic origin. The sense, however, is evident from the use of synonymous terms in the context.

^[1061] There is a play upon the words, perhaps, in the original. The Greek term for Juno (῞Ηρα) may be derived from ἔρα, terra, so that the antithesis intended is, “She is no longer called Earthly, but Heavenly.”

^[1062] i.e., Fountain, Spring, or Stream.

^[1063] The initial letters of the Greek ᾽Ιησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ, i.e., “Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior,” when joined together, make the word ἱχθύς, i.e., fish; and the fathers used the word, therefore, as a mystic symbol of Christ, who could live in the depth of our mortality as in the abyss of the sea. [Vol. ii. p. 297.]

^[1064] i.e., as sea, land, and sky

^[1065] θείας τύχης σύλλημμα.

^[1066] ἔλλραφος.

^[1067] ἐμπράκτου.

^[1068] The text gives θροβαδεῖ, for which Migne proposes θορύβηθι.

^[1069] πρακτικοὺς φόρους.

^[1070] τί τὸ ἐπόμενον, perhaps meant for, What business brings you?

^[1071] ὑπὲρ μαντείας ἀρίστης ὥσπερ κατατοξευόμενοι.

^[1072] ὁρμωμένη.

^[1073] Βηθλεωτῶν.

^[1074] μακρὰς τὰς χεῖρας according to Migne, instead of the reading of the manuscript, μακρὶν τὴν κῆραν ἔχουσα.

^[1075] σιτόχροος.

^[1076] διοπετεῖ.

^[1077] The manuscripts give ἀντάρτας, for which Migne proposes ἀνθρώπους or ἀντεργάτας. [Unworthy, wholly so, of our author. This curious specimen of the romances of antiquity might better have found its place with other Protevangelia in vol. viii., this series.]

^[1078] συνταξάμενοι.

I. On the Mythical Chronology of the Egyptians and Chaldeans.

^[1079] In Georgius Syncellus, Chron., p. 17, ed. Paris, 14 Venet.

^[1080] The text is:…συμπίπτουσι ταῖς ὀκτὼ καὶ ἐννέα χιλιάσιν ἑτῶν, ἃς Αιγυπτιων οι παρὰ Πλατωνι ἱερεῖς εις Σόλωνα καταριθμοῦτες οὐκ ἀληθεύουσι.

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