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

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300 NOTES TO pp. 109— 120, 11. 1929—2109.
1929. Lat. " sed cum pueris puerilia exercere ;
" ib.
1949. " Before our worship departs "
; or, " For our worship is gone."
1951. Be \)at, by that time.
1953. Lat. "super fluuium qui Siragma dicitur ; " ib. J. Valerius
gives no name to the river.
1970. " For very great (lit, well wide) would be thy weal," &c.
Read ]}i loele, as in Dublin MS.
1972. Mayniene, hold, keep. Perhaps \)i-8el/e is in the dative, and
means * for thyself.'
1974. See note to 1. 1744.
1976. Nt/f, were it not for ;
understand wer. Note the reading yf
ne wer in the Dublin MS. Lat. " Cum absque nostra dominatione terra
posset quasi vidua nuncupari ;
" b 1, back, col. 1. Perhaps vidua merely
means empty, ' '
desert,' rather than widow.'
1984. Lat. " hec grana papaueris que in mantica destinamus ;
" ib.
1988. "If thou failest to count them;" Lat. "quod si facere non
valebis ;
" ib. See U-ukien in Stratmann.
1991. " For this seed that I send thee shall ever be uncounted ;
Lat. "innuraerabilis est nostrorum copia pugnatorum;" ib.
read euir, as in the Dublin MS.
For neuire
1997. Tastis is the right reading, as shewn by the alliteration.
mantica tulit de ipso semine, mittensque illud
Lat. " mittens manum in
in OS suum cepit mandere dicens : Uideo quod homines illius multi
sunt, sed sicut hoc semen molles reperiuntur ;
" ib., and col. 2.
2004. Wald worth, would become, i. e. set out. For in the Dublin
MS. is a mistake for ivorth.
2021. "An host (which is) a trouble thus to enumerate," i. e. too
great to count ; Lat. " maxima copia pugnatorum ;" b 1, back, col. 2.
2025. " Shall be subdued, all the pack, unto these peppercorns
(^Ashmole) j
" So subdued by all the pack of these little grains
(Dublin).
2037. Lat. " Araonta princeps militie ;
" ib.
2051. Lat. " passus fuit sol eclipsim nolens tantam sanguinis efifusionem
contemplari
; " b 2, col. 1.
2060. Lat. " tergauersus de manibus inimicorum vix cum paucis
euasit ; " ib.
2067. In his hue, in the palm of his hand ; Lat. " in manu ;
" ib.
2097. " Eis heart was none the fuller of pride, even by the value of
a haw ;" lit. "was never, the higher by a haw, his heart full of pride."
2103. Cecile is the usual M.E. form of Sicily ; but the Lat. has
Cilicia, which is clearly intended. So also in 1. 2487. It is due to
changing Silice into Sidle.
2106. Yssanna ; Lat. text (ib.) Sauinia, which is not called an island.
In fact, the M.E. He merely means 'province' ;
see 1. 2116, where it is
used of Phrygia.
2109. The tor of Tare, the tor of Taurus. Tor is still used in
Devonshire in the sense of hill-top. In passing from Cilicia, Alexander