459. The margin of B gives the original Greek, ἄρουρα .
460. Following B; at this point four folios of A are from a second hand and much inferior to most of that ms.
461. The reference is perhaps to Josh. 17:2 or to Judg. 6:11 and 8:32.
462. I.e., the land these seahs would sow. B omits the word "seahs," and in the light of the next section we cannot be sure A has the correct form of the word.
463. Otherwise jugerum (plural, jugera), called in the fragments in Lagarde, Symmicta I 219, ἰούγερα μικρά . The Syriac word is the same which was translated jugon just above and which there referred to the ἰουγον or ἔγγεον , a unit of land used in determining the imperial taxes. Cf. the Lexicon of Hesychius; also K. G. Bruns and Ed. Sachau, Syrisch-römisches Rechtsbuch aus dem fünften Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 1880) p. 33, line 19. In most cases the present section refers to the Roman jugum, an altogether different thing.
464. I.e., most obviously, 10 days' plowing; but this was also perhaps the amount of land sown by 10 seahs of grain.
465. This is the Greek margin of B, meaning primarily "yokes," and used as a synonym for the Roman jugera.
466. This exact form does not occur in the mss.; the Syriac of B is @@@, and the Greek margin is τελεσματα. The data of both mss. make it clear that syntelesmata is the form lying back of the Syriac here, as Lagarde recognized.
467. The dimensions immediately following and the previous reference to the use of the field as a land measure among the Egyptians make it certain that the field here mentioned is the Egyptian. Cf. A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (Oxford, 1927) p. 200.
468. This first number must mean rods, since there are 5 plethra in a field; if taken as cubits in both cases, there would be 25 plethra in a field. Hultsch, Gr. und röm. Metrologie, p. 599, now reads 60 by 60 cubits as the meaning of the fragments in Lagarde, Symmicta I 218 f.; and this agrees practically with what we have just said about the Syriac text. Bar Bahlul, Lexicon Syriacum (ed. R. Duval) col. 1576, line 3, calls the plethron a jugum. Does he mean in Palestine?
469. I.e., a land measure corresponding to the seah as a measure of seed; the Syriac and Greek have an adjectival form here. The term koraean below has the same explanation.
470. The modius is mentioned in Matt. 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33.
471. As the square brackets indicate, the word does not occur in A; the Greek of Lagarde's Symmicta I 219, καβίεας , again indicates such an adjectival form as we have indicated by sataean and koraean.
472. Reading according to B, which the context demands.
473. § 58 has called the seah or sataean one-fifth of the field, and this parenthesis must really belong to that term.
474. Lit., "has it thus?" or "has it so much?"
475. Lit., "half"; but it cannot be this in the light of what immediately follows.
476. Lit., "compressed."
477. Gen. 6:15-16; cf. SG, p. 37.
478. Lit., "hand."
479. Cf. SG, p. 37. Lagarde translates: ". . . . und hinzugefügt wird unterhalb der spanne, das heisst aber welche eine geschlossene faust ausfüllt."
480. More exactly, "fingerbreadths."
481. I.e., Epiphanius measures 24 fingers along one side of the quadrangle and 24 fingers along another side, then takes their sum.
482. Epiphanius seems to think of a cubic block, around which he makes two complete measurements, each of them amounting to 96 fingers.
483. The significance of this last figure can only be the area of a cross-section of the piece of timber, and that would be 412+ units, if the circumference be 72---- not very exact calculation.