51. Cosmas has not quoted the passage where this word occurs.
52. Rom. viii, 34.
53. Matt. xxvi, 39.
54. Gr. turannou~ntej. See note 2, p. 92.
55. Luke xxiii, 44.
56. So called to distinguish him from Timotheus, nicknamed Aelurus or the Cat.
57. Isai. liii, 7.
58. Matt. xxvi, 39
59. Gr. i0nd. i/ . The time from which reckoning by Indictions began was the 1st, but, according to others, the 15th of September, 312 A.D. The Indiction is a cycle of fifteen years, which was used in reckoning time chiefly by ecclesiastical historians onward from the time of Athanasius, and it is still used by the Popes, who reckon it as commencing 1st January, 313. See Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap, xiv, n. 62; also chap, xviii, n. 170. The word originally meant a summons to pay a tax, and only gradually came to be a mode of reckoning time. The expression, the Tenth Indiction, does not mean the tenth period of fifteen years from 313 A.D., but the tenth year of any current Indiction. We express ourselves similarly when we say, for instance, the tenth January instead of the tenth of January.
60. Gr. Pasxw~n kb' . Montfaucon translates Pachon decima quarta. The circumflex on w shows Paschôn to be a misprint for Pachon.
61. John iv, 6.
62. John x, 30.
63. John xvi, 17.
64. These words seem to be added by Cosmas himself.
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