Alternatively, "caused everything to subsist by means of his Logos and the Holy Spirit."
This comment (concluding the series of excerpts from Eusebius that precedes it in the mss.) is extant in mss. BV.
Extant in ms. B. Nautin, p. 182, suggests that this is originally a reader's marginal note that was later brought into the main text.
See facsimile reproduction of this folio in Heyden, plate 2a. De Boor, "Neue Fragmente," p. 182, considers this to be connected to the account of Constantius' children that appears in the main text, although it is not in close physical proximity.
Extant in mss. PB. This note seems to be directly summarized from the prologue of Gelasius of Caesarea's continuation of Eusebius' history (see Photius, Bibl. cod. 89). Cf. Nautin, p. 178.
κατέκρινεν .
Extant in ms. P.
ἀναιροῦνται .
Extant in ms. B.
Extant in mss. BV.
Lit., "...against those who tyrannized over the Alexandrians."
I.e., died.
Extant in mss. BV.
τὴν πατρῴαν διεῖπεν ἀρχήν ; lit., "...managed his father's rule / empire."
Extant in mss. BP.
Alternatively, "from the beginning of Philip"—but the phrase seems to imply a dating formula, and thus a king's reign, as the heading of the following section shows; also, some mss. supply further information: "...Philip of Macedon—such (copper) as is on the gates of the Hagia Sophia"; with a subtitle: "the making of tawny copper."
This thuthia is called "upper" in the sense that it has been produced by sublimation to the upper part of the furnace / oven, according to Berthelot, Fr. tr., p. 331 n. 3, identifying the substance as zinc oxide (see the introduction, Livr. 1, pp. 239-40, where this is referred to as [artificially manufactured] cadmia ). As Berthelot's note argues, the word thuthia is attested late; along with the mention of the Arabs, it indicates that this portion of text at least was probably written between the 7th and 11th centuries. (Cf. also introduction, Livr. 1, p. 268.)
Gk. ἀπὸ τοῦφοινικοπαστίλλου ; Berthelot: "la couleur de palmier." The first element of the word is used both for the palm tree and for red/purple dye. Berthelot suggests that this was a derivative of arsenic, perhaps equivalent to the cobathia red / arsenic sulfide (realgar) which was treated as equivalent to palm-cinders as early as Zosimus' time (see Fr. tr., p. 185; see also the introduction, Livr. 1, pp. 244-5, on cobathia ).
This abbreviation appears in the Greek text, but Berthelot translates it as "parts," and so it appears not to be a standard unit of measure.
Berthelot, p. 332 n. 4, identifies this as "oxyde de fer ou de manganèse"—i.e., so-called "black magnesia " (see the introduction, Livr. 1, pp. 255-6).
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