Notes on the Syriac Chronicle of 846. (ZDMG.

, LI, 569 ff)

Author(s): E. W. Brooks
Source: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 53, No. 3 (1899), pp.
416-417
Published by: Harrassowitz Verlag
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416

Notes on the Syriac Chronicle of 846.

(Z DM6., LI, 569ff.)

By

E. W. Brooks.

In the present number of this Journal p. 153 appeared some

notes by Dr. Fraenkel on my edition of a portion of the above
chronicle. Several of Dr. Fraenkel's criticisms and suggestions, such
as the certain emendation ^or P- ^76 1. 2
(Michael has in fact Jojoto/) and the correction of
JL[Vq]2DjL for JL[;]>djL at p. 578 1. 1, I gladly accept; b
remain the following points which appear to call for an
p. 574 1. 16. I do not see any difficulty in the state
as it stands. There were no doubt many Syrians who h
into Asia Minor to escape from Arab oppression. This
rulers would regard as defrauding them of tribute and wou
fore be glad to bring them back when an opportunity
This explains why after bringing them back to their ow
they let them go free: they were wanted, not as slave
tribute -paying subjects. It is not necessary to take the c
so literally as to suppose that the Syrians were in the n
hood of Sardis and Pergamos: they may have been in t
easterly provinces traversed by the invaders on their way.

p. 575 1. 8. I cannot understand why [^XÍt

is impossible; and Dr. Fraenkel's emendation is founded
misunderstanding. Where I have supplied words in brack
not because there is something wanting in the sense, bu
there is a gap of corresponding length in the MS, and Dr. F
will scarcely contend for so violent an alteration as • X'
followed by a space long enough for . Moreover on exa
the MS again I find that the first letter of the missing wo
be jL, , since it begins with a projecting horizontal line, wh
not occur in any other letter.
1. ult. and p. 576 1. 1. When first I examined this p

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 Brooks, Notes on the Syriac Chronicle of 846. 41 7

I thought with Dr. Fraenkel that was an error for

but, finding that Michael has and Theophanes xaTccGTZOçáç ,
I saw no justification for changing the text. In the Hexaplar of
Josh. 21. 2 and Judg. 1. 18 (I take the references from Smith)
the word seems to mean 'agricultural land round a town',
which is just what we require here.
p. 576 1. 5. The L of the word printed Jk[i*>]2D is quite
clear, so that to read Jj^D with Dr. Fraenkel involves a departure
from the MS. is, I admit, not the word which we should
expect here, but I cannot think of any other possible word that
is consistent with the MS.
p. 575 1. 7. Dr. Frankel' s comment upon this passage depends
upon the same misunderstanding as that noticed above. There is
nearly half a line missing here.
p. 578 1. 17. 18. I do not think that any supplement is
required. The sentence is a slipshod one, which would not be
written by any literary writer, but it does not follow that it was
not written by our chronicler; we find in fact an exactly similar
one at p. 572 1. 3, 4.
With regard to the difficult JJ .nnom (p. 578 1. 2)
possibly we may render 'to go out to prayers, i. e. from their
towns and villages to the place frequented by Morutho.
With respect to Dr. Fraenkel's concluding remarks I certainly
hope to be able to publish the whole chronicle at no very distant
date : if the matter had depended only on my own wishes, it would
have been published before now.

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