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I. On the Pallium.

[1480] Moses.

[1481] See Ex. xxiii. 20-23; and comp. adv. Marc., l. iii. c. xvi.

[1482] Legitima, i.e., reverent of law.

[1483] i.e., virtuous acts.

[1484] Or, “valour.”

[1485] The Latin runs thus:

“Acer in hostem.

Non virtute sua tutelam acquirere genti.”

I have ventured to read “suæ,” and connect it with “genti;” and thus have obtained what seems to me a probable sense. See Judg. viii. 22, 23.

[1486] I read “firmandus” for “firmatus.”

[1487] Mundo.

[1488] I have again ventured a correction, “coarescere” for “coalescere.” It makes at least some sense out of an otherwise (to me) unintelligible passage, the “palm” being taken as the well-known symbol of bloom and triumph. So David in Ps. xcii. 12 (xci. 13 in LXX.), “The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree.” To “dry” here is, of course, neuter, and means to “wither.”

[1489] I have changed “eadem”—which must agree with “nocte,” and hence give a false sense; for it was not, of course, on “the same night,” but on the next, that this second sign was given—into “eodem,” to agree with “liquore,” which gives a true one, as the “moisture,” of course, was the same,—dew, namely.

[1490] Equite. It appears to be used loosely for “men of war” generally.

[1491] Which is taken, from its form, as a sign of the cross; see below.

[1492] Refers to the “when” in 99, above.

[1493] Lychno. The “faces” are probably the wicks.

[1494] “Scilicet hoc testamen erat virtutis imago.”

[1495] The text as it stands is, in Oehler:—

…“Hic Baal Christi victoria signo

Extemplo refugam devicit femina ligno;” which I would read:—

…“Hunc Jael, Christi victoriæ signo,

Extemplo,” etc.

[1496] For “hic” I would incline to read “huic.”

[1497] i.e., child.

[1498] i.e., instead of.

[1499] i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.

[1500] Viros ostendere Christos.

 

 

 

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