Bringel selects a different variant: Arrhenatus—she suggests that it is meant to be seen as derived from Gk. ἄρρην ("male"). This character, like the majority of the characters in this story, seems to be entirely fictional, although Bratke cites an apocryphal list of Persian kings in cod. Paris. 1775 as a parallel.
Alternatively, "armed forces" (cf. Bringel's translation, "l'armée"); Gk. στρατηγίαι .
Cf. Nabuzaradan in 2 Kgs. [4 Kgdms] 25—in effect, as Bringel points out, the highest functionary in the state.
At a number of points, the text offers a sequence of non-Greek words--allegedly, the original language of official utterances (i.e., Persian, or pseudo-Persian). Here, the presence of recognizable Greek words is suspicious ( διαλαλιά; μου; τοι ), as is the fact that the apparent "translation" is not introduced explicitly as such. Bringel does not include this particular sequence in her text.
"Pagans" here and elsewhere in this text is used to translate Gk. Ἕλληνες (originally "Greeks," but by the time period of this text, very commonly used as generic term for "pagans").
Bringel points out that this number is roughly correct for the church in 6th-cen. Persia.
I.e., leaders of monasteries, or abbots.
Gk. εὐγλωττίαι , following Bringel. Bringel selects the reading εὐγλωττίας over γλώσσας (Bratke), and translates, "les propos éloquents."
Gk. τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀριβῶς μοι εἴπατε (Bratke); Bringel prints a different variant: τὴν ἀκρίβειάν μοι εἴπατε .
Bringel's text reads somewhat differently: "...unfolding every Law-learned [ νομομαθής ] book" (Bringel translates, "Feuilletez...tout livre traitant de la Loi," but notes the fact that the adjective is otherwise only used of people).
Bringel's text, quite a bit more simply: "...report them to me."
Gk. πάντων ὑμῶν τὴν ἀπώλειαν αὐθωρὶ ποιήσω ; Bringel's Greek text is quite different here, although the purport is about the same: πάντας ὑμᾶς ἀναιρῶ .
Bringel's text does not include any of the material marked here with a dotted underline.
Gk. τὰ ὡμολογημένα ; see Lampe, s.v. ὁμολογέω 1(a).
Bringel's text does not include any of the material marked here with a dotted underline.
Gk. ἄχραντοι . Bringel translates, "intègre."
But anomalous acc. Δίαν rather than Δία .
Bringel's text does not include this speech.
Bringel rejects the reading οἱ σοὶ , on the assumption that σοὶ is a dative of the personal pronoun, and emends to οὗτοι . I take it rather as the possessive adjective, in which case it seems to make sense.
As Bringel points out here, "priest" (Gk. ἱερεύς ) is frequently used as a synonym of "bishop."
Alternatively, "[sexual] unions" (Bringel: "unions charnels"); Gk. συνουσίαι .
Here again Bringel chooses a different reading from Bratke.
I.e., no one could successfully argue against him.
Gk. ...εἰς τὸ φυγεῖν ὄντων τὰς ἀλόγους αὐτοῦ μηχανὰς ...
So Lampe, s.v. οἰκτείρω . Bringel does not include this phrase in her text.