Chapter LXXII

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CHAPTER LXXII.

1. The seventy-second subject is this, that when any one carries dead matter to water, or to fire, is

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worthy of death ¹. 2. And ² it asserts in revelation, that any year when the locust comes profusely ³, it comes for the reason that dead matter is brought to water and fire. 3. And, in like manner, the winter is colder, and the summer is hotter.

Footnotes

337:1 See Pahl. Vend. VII, 65-71.

337:2 Lp, B29 have 'for.'

337:3 La has sâl, and B29 san for 'year;' Lp has 'that when the bês and locust come profusely.' The bês may be either a poisonous plant (Napellus Moysis), or 'distress.'