Note 29 — CAP. XX.
Reading edition
1: Tried hard.
2: Mortise.
3: Mixed.
4: Steps.
5: Altar.
6: Bouillon.
7: Baldwin.
8: Placed.
9: Should read Ὁ θεὸς βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν πρὸ αἰώνων εἰργάσατο σωτηρίαν ἐν μέσῳ τῆς γῆς.
10: Should read Ὃ εἲδες, ἐστὶ βάσις τῆς πίστεως ὅλης τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.
11: Other editions have 33 years and 3 months.
12: Sooth, true.
13: Caius Julius Cæsar.
14: Other editions give the proper number of days, viz., 365.
15: Other editions say four, which is the number represented in the engraving.
16: Paces.
17: Perception, or sagacity. Lat., sensus.
18: Helena, mother of Constantine.
19: True, veritable.
20: Another is said to be incorporated in the so-called Iron Crown of Lombardy. Guisto Fontanini, Archbishop of Ancyra, gives a list of twenty-three places claiming to have a nail—Venice having three. M. Rohault de Fleury gives six more—whilst, according to tradition, Helena sent two to her son, and threw one in the sea to still a storm, thus leaving but one to meet all demands.
21: Through.
22: Won or conquered.
23: Greater.
24: Aleppo.
25: The Vitæ Sanctorum Patrum, many old printed copies of which exist.
26: When God thinks fit.
27: A linen swathing-band.
28: Arimathæa.
29: Off.