Note 28 — THE EIGHTH PAPYRUS

This is the most cryptic allusion in the present fragment; and I must confess that it puzzles me sadly. I am given to understand that “Iota Delta Beta” sometimes signifies “Illicit Diamond Buyer,” an obsolete species of South African criminal. But what kind of thing a “Military Agriculturist” is (for that is what Mr. Crabbe’s Greek means), passes my comprehension. I have therefore rendered the expression by a simple transliteration of the original. A. H.