The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

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when a Latin translation would have been acceptable.
(3) It
does not show signs of being an excerpt from a collection of
excerpts, such as we find in the Greek fragment of En. lxxxix.
42-49 (see p. Ztf, notes); but, standing as it does without
any introductory note or explanation, it looks more as if it
were drawn directly from at least a larger Latin fragment
of Enoch.
I have followed the spelling and punctuation of the MS. as
furnished to me by Mr. James. The italics denote expanded
contractions.
CVI. 1. Factum est autem [cum ess^ Lamech annorww
tricentorum quinquagenta] natus est ei filiu(s) %. cui oculi
sunt sicut radi solis capilli autem eius candi(di)ores in septies
niue corpori autem eius (nemo hominum potest intueri)
3. et surexit inter manws obstetricis suae et adorauit (et)
CVI. 1 . The date here is a foolish addition of some copyist. It
agrees neither with the Hebrew, Samaritan, nor LXX. chronology,
which respectively give 182, 53, 188 years. 2. Oculi stmt
sicut radi solis. This may safely be regarded as the true text.
Cf. Eth. cvi. 10 and the words from the Petrine Apoc, quoted in
the note to that verse, p. 303. The corresponding Eth. text
£f£av i8vvf]6r) avTt(3\e\j/ai. Cf. Apoc. Petri f. 1 9.
After these words there is another lacuna. 3. Et surexit.
For fl)Aft=et cum, read fl0flfl>7=et turn with GG 1
, and translate
't*iJ Ju h not 'was taken,' but arose =surrexit. Hence, for 'when
he was taken from the hand,' read thereupon he arose in the
hands. Make the same change in ver. II. Before et adorauit,
Eth. in vv. 3, II, adds aperuit os suum. Corresponding to
adoravit here, there is oravit in ver. 1 1 . For adoravit or oravit,