Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents

Footnotes

^[3272] i.e., the sixth day of the week. See note 9 on p. 668.—Tr.

^[3273] As Simeon Metaphrastes, infra, evidently made use of these Acts of Habib in his account of that martyr, it is probable that his narrative of the martyrdom of Guria and Shamuna also was founded on the copy of their Acts to which Theophilus here refers.

Martyrdom of the Holy Confessors Shamuna, Guria, and Habib, from Simeon Metaphrastes.

^[3274] Cureton gives it in Latin.—Tr.

^[3275] This piece is taken from the well-known work of Surius, De probatis Sanctorum vitis. It does not appear who made this Latin translation.

Metaphrastes is a celebrated Byzantine writer, who lived in the ninth and tenth centuries. He derives his name from having written paraphrases, or metaphrases, of the lives of the saints. Fabricius gives a list of 539 lives commonly attributed to him.—Dr. W. Plate, in Smith’s Dict. Biog. and Myth.—Tr.

^[3276] [A token of mediæval origin.]

^[3277] Ps. cxlvi. 3.—Tr.

^[3278] Dux.

^[3279] Matt. x. 33.—Tr.

^[3280] 2 Cor. iv. 16.—Tr.

^[3281] Or “through his disobedience in the matter of the tree,” if per ligni inobedientiam are the real words of the Latin translator, who is not, generally speaking, to be complimented for elegance or even correctness, but seems to have made a servile copy of the mere words of the Greek.—Tr.

^[3282] Matt. x. 28.—Tr.

^[3283] 2 Cor. v. 1.—Tr.

^[3284] Lit. “with one foot.”—Tr.

^[3285] i.e., the anniversary.—Tr.

^[3286] In the Syriac account “Telzeha:” see p. 690, supra.—Tr.

^[3287] Compare the “combs” of the Syriac, p. 684, supra.—Tr.

^[3288] Reading “totum” for “solum.”—Tr.

^[3289] Rom. viii. 18.—Tr.

^[3290] Lit. “bitter.”—Tr.

Moses of Chorene. History of Armenia.

^[3291] This extract is taken from the edition, in two volumes, printed at Paris, of which the following is the title: MOÏSE, DE KHORÈNE, auteur du Ve Siècle: HISTOIRE D’ARMÉNIE, texte Arménien et traduction Francaise, avec notes explicatives et précis historiques sur l’Arménie, par P. E. Le Vaillant de Florival.

I. Reign of Abgar; Armenia becomes completely tributary to the Romans; war with Herod’s troops; his brother’s son, Joseph, is killed.

^[3292] Book ii. chapter. xxvi.

II. Founding of the town of Edessa; brief account of the race of our illuminator.

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