The kollathon among the Syrians is half of a liquid seah, and it is 25 xestai.
And the congiarium is a liquid measure, and called the same among the Hebrews. This measure is explained in the Chronicle of Eusebius and by other chroniclers, (who tell) how each of the kings in (his) time in accordance with (his) ambition made grants to the Roman populace for good cheer. It is to be interpreted "put together" or "coiled up." |142
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1. Lit., "upon" or "to."
2. Lagarde says both c and r read ὑφε ; he has οἰφεὶ in text.
3. Lagarde says both c and r read σαβιθα; his text reads σαφιθα.
4. Greek: βαδον.
5. This ἐλαιοτρέπτης should be added to the Greek lexicon.
6. Greek: h2; but καὶ would fit the plural verb better.
7. This sense of μετρέω in the passive is not indicated in the lexicons.
8. Petavius (see Dindorf's ed. of Epiphanius IV 98) says that the emendation of δε και to δεκα was made already by Cornarius.
9. I.e., seah.
10. I.e., the week (of creation).
11. Greek: ποστημορέον .
12. Lagarde has the singular; Dindorf uses the plural without any word of explanation. Lagarde's footnote says both c and r read αρτου .
13. Both Lagarde and Dindorf declare that their sources read γομον , but Lagarde prints γομορ in his text; there can be no doubt as to the meaning.
14. Both Lagarde and Dindorf read ἄρτου instead; but in his Symmicta I 211 and 215 Lagarde has σέτου from various fragmentary Greek mss.
15. But 50 in Syriac § 32.
16. Originally the name of a mineral (a variety of gypsum or calcite) from which vases and jars were made; but the term came later in careless popular speech to be applied to such objects made of other substances.
17. ὀψόβαφον for the more usual ὀξύβαφον .
18. See p. 55, n. 372.
19. Cf. p. 136, n. 2; the Syriac is shafitha.
20. κατα δὲ τὸν ληρισμον , emended to λιτρισμὸν by both Lagarde and Dindorf. Lagarde, op. cit. I 216, gives this latter word.
21. Much of this sentence is hopelessly corrupt; cf. Hultsch, Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae I 143 f. and 265, who gives on pp. 143 f. the emended reading translated above. Cf. also p. 57, n. 394, on denarion, denaria.
22. For the emended reading ( Ἀσσυρέων rather than ἀσσαρέων ) cf. Hultsch, op. cit. I 265.