484. The only reason for this second division is that the science of mathematics was not far advanced in the author's day, and he must divide by successive subtractions.
485. I.e., the term lepta seems to be preferred when speaking of cubic fingers, but the author is not consistent in his usage.
486. Only in linear measure; has the author forgotten he is dealing with cubic measure? But it is a fact that the 96 is half of his solid cubit.
487. A result far from accurate. Since 18 fingers are a cubit, 324 square fingers are a square cubit, and the area of a cross-section of this piece of timber would be, according to a previous calculation, 412/324 square cubits. This fraction multiplied by 10 gives as a result 12 2/3 solid cubits.
488. Margin: σπιθαμε.
489. More exactly, "handbreadths." Margin: παλεστη.
490. As described below it is a "handlength," and the "palm" is sometimes used in this sense. Margin of both mss. is ὀρθιαιος .
491. The Syriac term is an altogether unusual form, clearly a transliteration of some such Greek word. The margin of B is γρονθαιος, but the margin of A is μυγμη. The latter copyist evidently took it for a noun rather than an adjective. The fact that the marginal readings are exactly reversed in the case of the preceding "fist" points in the same direction.
492. 1 Cor. 9:26.
493. Title repeated in margin of A.
494. Bk. Jub. 5:28; 7:1; 10:15, in R. H. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the O. T., Vol. II (Oxford, 1913).
495. Gen. 8:4.
496. This term is found in the Peshitta, Gen. 8:4, and the corresponding gentilic in Isa. 37:38. The word Κορδυαίων , quoted by Josephus (Antiquities I iii 6), indicates that the word "Qardu" goes back at least as far as Berosus. Cf. Eusebius, Onomasticon, ed. Klostermann (Leipzig, 1904) pp. 2 f.
497. This term is found in LXX of Isa. 37:38. The fact was noted by Eusebius, op. cit. p. 38, line 11.
498. Atad in MT and LXX, Gen. 50:10 f.
499. I.e., σημεῖα . B margin adds: "i.e., the pillars or posts set up along the roads."
500. Josh. 15:6. According to the Encyclopaedia Biblica I (London, 1899) 557 Eusebius mistakenly identifies this place with Atad; cf. his Onomasticon, ed. Klostermann, p. 8.
501. I.e., @@@ , "thorn bush," is equated with @@@.
502. Deut. 32:49. A comparison with Eusebius, op. cit. p. 16, indicates clearly the source of the statements about Abarim; this is also the source of many of the statements that follow.
503. Margin of A: απολι βιαλος ; margin of B: απο λιβιαδος .
504. Cf. map at end of the Onomasticon in Klostermann's edition.
505. Lagarde cites his Armenische Studien, § 1038, which I have been unable to consult; he also thinks G. Hoffmann in ZDMG XXXII 743 may be pertinent.
506. cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 168, on Num. 23:28.
507. LXX in Num. 21:19 and 23:14; Deut. 3:27.
508. The nearest approach to this reading is Deut. 3:27 in LXX.