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Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents
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[3510] Since he could change his form to suit his purpose.
[3511] That is, “the Daughter” (namely, of Demeter), the name under which Proserpine was worshipped in Attica.
[3512] Because the behaviour of which he had to complain was sanctioned by the highest of the gods.
[3513] For ***, “was tried,” read ***. The Greek has μεμίσητο. Cureton: “forgotten.”
[3514] The word is “Balthi.”
[3515] Dr. Payne Smith reads *** instead of ***, word which, as Cureton says, is not in the lexicons.
[3516] The reading of the Greek copy, ἀκολάστως ζῶσαν, is here given. The Syrian adapter, misunderstanding ἀκολάστως, renders: “and is without punishment.”
[3517] Cureton, “break.”
[3518] Lit. “look at.”
[3519] So in the Greek copy. The Syriac, which has “valiant,” appears to have mistaken ἄνανδροι for ἀνδρεῖοι.
[3520] The tradition seems to be followed which makes Procne to have been changed into a swallow, and her sister (Philomela) into a nightingale.
[3521] Cureton: “play with a tremulous motion.” But the Syriac very well answers to the Greek ἐκκαλούμενοι πρὸς οῖστρώδεις κινήσεις, if we take *** to denote result: q.d., “so as to produce movement.”
[3522] Greek, ἐκβακχευόμενοι.
[3523] Lit. “bed of falsity.” [Compare notes on vol. i. pp. 271, 272.]
[3524] For previous quotations refer to p. 721, supra.
[3525] It must not be inferred that I speak as a Syriac scholar. I have laboured unsuccessfully, and late in life, to repair my sad neglect at an earlier period; and I can speak only as a penitent.
[3526] Dean Payne Smith has assumed the unfinished task of Bernstein.
[3527] See his Preface to the Testament, published at Hamburg a.d. 1664. He had the type cut at his personal expense, and set up the press and lodged the printers in his own house.
[3528] See his translation of the Peshito Syriac version, Stanford & Swords (Bishop Hobart’s publishers), New York, 1855.
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