9. The spelling found in Sophocles' Lexicon; cf. § 52.
10. The solidus was 1/6 ounce in the Roman system; see Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, Ancient Weights and Measures (London, 1926) p. 25. Doubtless the word written here is an error for sela, written @@ in § 53.
11. I.e., small silver pieces, called miliarenses.
12. B indicates a major pause here.
13. B has the plural here.
14. Margin: αρουρα .
15. The Greek γομορ represents both the omer and the homer; there is only the context to guide in the choice between the two terms.
16. Cf. Lagarde, Orientalia II (Gottingen, 1880) 2 f.
17. Lit.: "indicating a measure that fills the grasp of the hand."
18. κανισκιον , diminutive of κανεος , a basket of reed or cane, especially a bread basket.
19. Greek: ἀλάβαστρον ; cf. Mark 14:3 and Peshitta.
20. I Kings 19:6.
21. B has @@@@, which denotes a dish practically square, about the same as the Latin scutella.
22. Heb. 9:4; cf. LXX, Exod. 16:33.
23. "And an understanding of other things" is not in the Greek. Note to the online text: I have placed material not in the Greek in grey.
24. Margin: "in the divine Scriptures."
25. These two words are the same in Syriac and in Greek, literally, "theories"; in the second case both A and B employ the singular.
26. Plural in B.
27. Not in Greek mss. employed by Lagarde and Dindorf; Lagarde supplies ἐλέγχους .
28. Not in the Greek; apparently a gloss on "threatenings."
29. B has this as a marginal gloss.. .
30. Never in general use and of no special value...
31. The ancient forms of our 'and '.
32. I.e., in the Hexapla of Origen or in quotations from that work. Cf. H. B. Swete, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge, 1914) pp. 59-76. Greek: "Likewise also concerning the rest of the signs. Concerning the asterisk."
33. Preceding part of the sentence not in Greek.