Note 3 — Chapter CXXXIV
P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation
Dumb and deaf, . It is strange that this meaning of the passage has so long been misunderstood. The sense of the first word has long been recognised, and ‘deaf’ is the meaning rightly assigned to in Birch’s Dictionary. One instance like the following (from Unas, 608) is sufficient to settle the question—, “He is not so deaf that he should not hear thy voice.”
