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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... critics down to the present day, when it has been revived, re-stamped and re-issued by C. G. Cobet inrhis Coltect. Crit. p. 5867who says of it: 1 EX 'densa caligfiTe claram lucem fecit admirabilis Camerarii emendatio vo-o-a irtpiOivTts. Nesciebant scribae veteres quid esset vtrr$. Itaque notum sibi vocabulum io-o-wni substituerunt, quod abhorret prorsus a sententia.' XIX. 34: aurov Tv ir-vpdv vu c All versions: 'pierced his side, ' for which I should prefer 'pricked his side, ' to keep up The_dlStmction between evv e (the milder word) and ftKivrqat (v. 37). All the ancient versions vary the word, though Vulg. antf Philoxenian Syriac seem to have had a different reading (ijvoige). Loesner Observationes ad N. T. e Philone, p. 161) suggests that this word was chosen, ut cognosceremus non malo consilio (81 vnepftoXriv dfiarqTot, as some of the Greek commentators express it) id fecisse militem, sed ut exploraret an Jesus vere mortuus esset. I have lately met with a passage in Plut. Vit. Cleom. Xxxvii, which greatly favours this idea. Cleomenes and a party of thirteen make their escape from prison, and endeavour to raise the town and get possession of the citadel; but failing, resolve to put themselves to death, one of the number, Panteus, being ordered by Cleomenes not to kill himself till he had made sure that all the others were dead. When all are stretched on the ground, Panteus goes round, and makes trial of them one by one, touching them with his dagger (t5 (i(piSia napairropevos). When he came to Cleomenes, and pricking him on the ancle (NYSA2 napa To apvpov) saw him contract his face, he kissed him; then sat down by him, and when he was quite dead, embracing the body, slew himself upon it1. X1X. 42: Ik& oiv--?9tjKttv T6v 'It)r...

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