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

298 NOTES TO pp. 89—99, 11. 1614—1767*.
1614. Lat. " Uidentes hec reges Syrie plurimura obstupefacti murmurabant
; " ib.
1617. Permeon ; Lat. (ib.) " Parmonen ;" in Josephus, Parmenio.
1630. Anell ; read angell, i.e. angle, corner. Aysy, Asia.
1631. Lat, "illud siquidem in somnio me negligere nullatenus
incitabat, sed confidenter transire ;" a 6, back, col. 2.
1633*. Not in the Ashmole MS. For he, read 7, twice ; for hoppyd
read hopis, Ist pers. pres. indicative. Lat. "Ideoque animaduerto ipsuin
esse quern per somnium intuebar; " ib.
1650. Lythis of, listens to ; the reading lightez is corrupt. In the
Dublin text it would be better to put commas after c6 and ivald ; it
means, " and, as the law appointed, he offers," &c.
1655. See Daniel vii. 6; viii. 3—8, 20—22; xi. 3. The text
expressly meant is no doubt Dan. viii. 21.
1679. " Then we should be bound, all the heap of us, to speed thee
(^otherwise, to pray for thee) for ever."
1681, Men of Medi, i. e. the Jews dwelling in Media. Lat. " vt
ludei in Media et Babvlonia constituti suis legibus potirentur;" a 7,
col. 1.
1687. Here ends the parallel passage in Josephus.
1691. The Lat. text (ib.) calls him Adromaticus.
1710. The words " he thought him so feeble" are in a parenthesis ;
the " three things" are in the accusative case.
1712. Lat. " Direxit ei pilam ludricam et zocham que fit de virgis
que a capita curuatur, et cancram auream ;" ib. See note to I. 1900.
1720. Part of the story here following agrees tolerably closely with
the account in Julius Valerius, ed. Mai, ch. xlii, &c,
1725. In fang with; Lat. " vna cum ;" a 7, col. 2.
1731. Puruayd )pe pletours, provided for thyself pleaders. Pleaders
is here used as a term of reproach ;
Jamieson gives plede, a quarrel,
broil. Hence it means brawlers ; Lat. " latrunculos;" ib.
1738. Fere, far, by a long way.
1744. "Therefore it is better to unbend [as in Dublin MS., for see
1974] and desist from thy violence, and feign all with fairness, and
rejoice as far you may." Perhaps for feyne (or for fayne) we should
read/an^e, i.e. receive, accept.
1753. Sorowe is certainly an error for schrewe, i. e. shrew-mouse.
"Ane erd-growyn schrewe" is a close translation of the Lat. " nius
prosiliens de scissura ;
" ib,
1756—8. Not in the original.
1759. Lat. " Egressus enim de terra Cethim et per spaciosa loca
Perside tradis, saltus et ludos exercis [read exercens] vt mus in domibus
vbi catule vel muscipule non sunt ; " ib.
1766. " I shall set an assault (i. e. make an attack) on
thee."
1767*. " For if thou overshoot thy shot, thou spoilest thine arrows,"
A hyphen should be inserted between otter and sheet, ouersheet (over-