The wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly ...

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NOTES TO pp. 72— 89, 11. 1360—1605. 297
1360. FouUre, for /oule hire, i. e. tread lier (the city) under foot
Lat. " ipsainque pedibus conculcabis ; " a 6, col. 2. ''Fouler, to tread,
stainpe, or traraple on ; " Cotgrave.
1366. " Where the building that he built was first reared."
1370. Ane eld, put for a neld, or ane neld, a needle ; so also a nedyll
in the Dublin MS. Tlie Lat. has :
" Construxit itaque in mare ingens
edificium classium quod erat centum anchoris alligatum. Erat siquidem
tante celsitudinis quod rauris et turribus Tyrorum Alexander
eminebat ; " ib.
1385—1420. This spirited passage, evidently written with keen
enjoyment of the scene, is not in the original.
1421—4. Tliis somewhat varies from the original, which has :
" Descissis
itaque anchoris edificium parebat ad latera muri ciuitatis ; " ib.
1437. "Alii scalis, alii manibus adlierentes ;
" ib.
1447. " In quibus quanta mala sustinuerunt Syrii vsque hodie
memoratur
;
" a 6, col. 2, and a 6, back.
1457. A large portion of the Seventh Passus, down to 1. 1687,
agrees rather closely with the account in Josephus, Antiq. of the Jews,
b. xi. c. 8, which should be compared with the text.
1460. " Had refused him an errand," Ashmole ;
" had denied him by
saying nay," Dublin.
1462. "In all his greatest need, had he not failed that man."
1466. "On as many halidoms as open and shut." The sense of
halidom, in this case, is a small box for containing relics. Hence the
phrase "to swear on the halidom"; Rob. of Brunnc, Handlyng Synne,
5629. See the glossaries to Layamon and the Orraulum.
1469. laudes, Jaddua ; see note to 1. 1171.
1504. " Deinde ipsum ira domini conculcabit ; " a 6, back, col. 1.
Hence ire, not ayre, is right.
1513— 1572. This splendid passage, abounding in fancy and invention,
is not in the Latin text.
1536. " And powdered (sprinkled over) with jewellery, which was
purer than (any) other." Cf. Rich, the Redeles, i. 46.
1575. By sum skill, for some reason. Lat. " peruenit ad locum qui
s^opolus nuncupatur, vnde templum et ipsa ciuitas conspicitur ; " ib.
Scopolus represents the Gk. oKOTriKoc, a look-out place. Josephus (tr.
by Whiston) says :
" a place called Sapha, which name, translated into
Greek, signifies a prospect, for you have thence a prospect both of
Jerusalem and of the temple ;" Antiq. xi. 8. 5.
1583. " Doctors both of dialectics and of decrees."
1592. Lat. " super caput ei[u]8 habentem syndonem mundam et
desuper laminam aureara fabricatam, in qua nomen Dei ietragramaton
scriptum erat ; " ib. Josephus likewise mentions this head-plate. The
telragrammaton, or word of four letters, is YHVH, or Yahveh, the exact
origin of which is still disputed ; see Gesenius, Heb. Diet. 9th ed. p. 323.
1605. Lat. " Uiuat viuat altissimus Alexander venit. Uiuat viuat
altissimus imperator Alexander," &c. ; a 6, back, col. 2.