Note 320 — EL CAPITÁN VENENO[4] (continued 2)

Etiamsi Omnes: this Latin, literally, "though all (should)", seems to be for etiam sic omnes, 'even so all', or, freely, it is ever thus, or all are alike. The Bible has etsi omnes, 'even though all be offended yet will I never leave thee'; Matthew 26:33: Etsi omnes scandalizati fuerint in te, ego nunquam scandalizabor; and verse 35: Etiamsi oportuerit me mori tecum, non te negabo, 'Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee'. Alarcón often uses biblical phrases playfully, e.g. En verdad os digo often in Diario. The Latin here is erroneous, as it is several times in Alarcón, e.g. tememos abutere patientia vestra for abuti. Mayo, p. 316, ed. Rivadeneyra, 1905.