284. Lit., "said." The Greek has only "according to the above" after "xestai."
285. Greek: ποδέου .
286. I.e., to learn the alphabet; ἀλφεῖν does not appear even in the Lexicon of Sophocles.
287. Greek: τὸ ἄλφα .
288. Greek: "into Greek."
289. ρηγλιάζω is found in Sophocles; [ Syriac ] should have such a meaning assigned it in Brockelmann, op. cit.
290. Greek: "it confesses."
291. This sentence not in the Greek.
292. Greek: "different." From this point on the Greek is very fragmentary. Cf. App. III.
293. A purely supposititious root so far as the Hebrew is concerned.
294. The emphatic form of the Syriac; Greek: κάβος .
295. Lit., "all."
296. Lit., "said."
297. Cf. SG, p. 315.
298. The Syriac , @@@ is doubtless a transliteration of οφεν , which would be the Greek representation of [ Hebrew ] . Only the dual occurs in MT: Eccles. 4:6; Ezek. 10:2, 7; Exod. 9:8; Lev. 16:12; Prov. 30:4. Cf. Lagarde, Orientalia II (Gottingen, 1880) 2 f.
299. 1 Kings 17:12.
300. In the Syriac the verb "grasps" and the noun "handful" are from the same root; this could have been true of the Greek also.
301. Gen. 11:1-9.
302. Greek poetic term for men, commonly derived from meiromai.
303. Reading @@@ and considering it an abstract noun from the root @@@; or we might possibly translate: "because there is a diminution in the xestes of the place," reading according to the root @@@. A third possibility would be a transliteration of the Greek ληνός , "wine vat."
304. Margin: "Greek here, also Hebrew, because the Greek tongue and the Hebrew say (artabå)."
305. LXX of Isa. 5:10; cf. Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrosianus, ed. A. M. Ceriani (Mediolani, 1874).
306. A has changed an original @ to @, "and."
307. LXX of Isa. 5:10; cf. Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrosianus.
308. Gen. 18:6.