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Homily V.

[1] [The historical setting of Homily V. is peculiar to this narrative; most of the views appear in a different connection in the Recognitions (mainly book x.).—R.]

[2] [See Homily IV. 6, footnote.—R.]

[3] [The introduction of the letters is an ingenious literary device. Much of the mythological matter is given in Recognitions, x.—R.]

[4] We have adopted the punctuation of Wieseler.

[5] [Comp. Recognitions, x. 20–23, for a parallel to chaps. 12–15.—R.]

[6] I have no doubt that this is the general meaning; but the text is hopelessly corrupt.

[7] This from a marginal reading.

[8] I suspect it should rather be impellers, reading φερόντων for ἐρώντων.

[9] [Compare the different use of these details in Recognitions, x. 24; also in Homily VI. 21.—R.]

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