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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 79
this note separating the one from the other and referring to the
preceding epistles. The preceding epistles have disappeared, but the
appended note, assigning the translation to Robert of Lincoln, has
survived. We have thus nearly contemporary testimony to the authorship
of the version.
The value of this version for critical purposes consists in its extreme
literalness. To this end the construction of the Latin is consistently
sacrificed, as for instance in Philad. lo ets to avyxap-rjvai
avroi evrt to
passiones,' ib. 1 1 eis to yevo/^evov ews Svptas avyxo-pyjvai auToTs (i.e. that
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he may visit Syria and congratulate them ')
in factum usque Syriam
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congaudere ipsis,' Polyc. 7 lav irep Sta tov -TraOelv ©sou CTrtTw^^w
€is TO
ivpeQrjvai /xe eV rfj dvao-rdaei vjxwv jiaOyj-nqv, 'siquidem per pati Deo potiar
in inveniri me in resurrectione vestri discipulum,' Trail. 12 rrj i^^t dXX-qXoiv
Trpoaevxy ' ea quae cum adinvicem oratione,' Afar. Ign. 3 ae eorum qui secundum virum
ordinatio' (to TroAvev'-aKTov), ib. 14 ' superindigeo ' (eVtScoyxat), Rom. 5
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injustificatio {dSiKriixa),
Mar. Ign. 5 subrememorans '
(v-irofXL/j.v7]-
aKova-a), Ign. Mar. 3
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scriptibilis
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(cfouoriao-TT/'s),
lb. 1 1
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amaricatio '
(ypacfuKO's), Ant. 3
(7rapo|^i;o-/xo's),
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potestativus '
etc. And again, particles
are scrupulously reproduced in violation of Latin idiom, such as
uv, which is rendered titiqtie, e.g. Trail. 11 i(paLvovTo av 'apparerent
utique,' Magn. 12 oTav 'quando utique.' Even as regards the order of
the words it
may be treated as an authority ;
for in this respect also
with very rare exceptions the Greek is rigidly followed without any
regard for Latin usage.
Moreover the ms which the translator used was evidently superior
to the existing mss of the Greek {laur. Ivii. 7 and Paris. Graec. 14^1).
Thus it is free from several interpolations in these mss (mostly found also
in the Long recension, and frequently quotations from the N. T.) ;
e.g. Ephes. i tov VTz\p -^[xwv lavToV dveveyKOvro'; ©eo) Trpoacj^opdv koI $v(riav,
ib. 2 KajyjpTi(TfX€Voi. Tw avT(2 VOL K.T.X., Pom. 3 Ttt
yap fSXcTTOfJLiva TrpoaKaipa
K.T.X., ib. 4 KoafjLLKov ^ jxaraiov, ib.
5 dvaTop.ai SiatpeVet, tb, 6 tl yap
w^eXetTat avOpwiro'i k.t.X., ib. 10 tovtccttlv AvyovarTov et/caSt Tpirrj. Similarly
it is free from the omission of Ao'yos
after ©eou and the substitution
of Tpe'xwi' for ^wvri in Rom. 2.
Again, in several instances it gives
words and clauses which have dropped out of these mss through inad-