Note 3 — Chapter CXXVI
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Distress, . “Te semper anteit saeva necessitas,” Horace says to Fortuna. The determinative and the Coptic ⲙⲣ̄ evidently point to the notion of constraint, but the few texts in which the word is found imply want, need (angustiæ, ἀνάγκη),[136] rather than captivity. Amenemhat at Benihassan (tomb 2) 246boasts that in his days and under his government no one was seen “in distress (), or starving.” And Horus at Edfu (Naville, Mythe d’Horus, pl. XXII) is said to protect the needy or distressed () against the powerful. This is an honour already claimed by Antuf on his tablet (Louvre, C. 26 line 17), who mentions the maȧru as being an object of interest to him, like the orphan and the widow.
