of the letters TEA and AIN02, the well-known word A ATEIN02 was formed. Or else they had heard that the name of the beast would be Latin , as about to occur in the Latin language, and not in Hebrew or Greek ; and by a u Suppositio Materialis” [See Ap- pend. Teclm. Terms], they interpreted that of the name AunTwg itself. Whether the former or the latter was the case, Aa rsTvog ought not to have been put with E ; for the Greek El, with a con- sonant following, is expressed in Latin by I, as e’ncuv, icon : but the Latin I does not pass into El in Greek, nor is AanTvog borne out by analogy : for it is not written ’AxyAe/voc, x.r.X., but ’ AxvXTvoc , ’Aa fi/vog, ’ Axpuyavr/vog, ’ AXe^avdp/vog, ’ AvrcovTvog, A pxrTvog, ’ A pyjvog: Ka-
XovTvog, KapTvog , KoXXar/vog , K pctr/vog, Kpiffn/vog, K ovaprnoCj K 'jjvffruvr?vogy A zovrTvog, Aeu/vog , Ai(3epr?vog , A oyyTvogy M aycpn/og, Mu^ifiTvog, M apTvog^ N spvX- A/voc, N iypTvog7 HicpiXl vogy UiffTvog? 2a/57Voc, 2 aropvTvog , 'ZrucTvog, Ta pcoir?vogy TiyeXXTvog, <E >iX?vog, <f>\wpevr?vog. It would be tedious to collect more instances. In Irengeus himself, ’i ouffr/vog, OvaXsvrTvog , 'T ynog, <l>Xup?vog, are uniformly written with the simple I : and thus also AarTvog , which very word is used in the Sibylline books with I, at one time long, and at another time short. And thus in one MS. of Andreas, A arTvog is replaced by the copyist, correcting the text, contrary to the design of Andreas : in a second, at the word Aurt?vog there is added &a dKpOoyyov, with an open acknowledgment of the license which is frequently used by the Greeks in Greek chronologies, as it is by the Germans in German. For on account of the same num- ber 666, they made Tznav out of T/rav, n oc.mToy.og out of n arr/ffxog, ’ Apvovpe out of ’A pvovfjjai. But there ought to be no place for a license of this kind in a matter of such great importance. Andreas of Csesareia, or they who have enlarged upon his works, have added other names, for the sake of exercise , after the example of Hippoly- tus. Among these, Benedictus is especially remarkable, not only in the Augustan Codex, which superadds one name upon another, but even in the Sylburgian edition : nor however does that Benedict of Nursia, of whom Andreas might have heard, and whom Nic. Mulerius brings forward on this place, appear to have been the person intended by any Greek copyist: for the Menologia of the Greeks also preserves his memory on the 14th of March ; but the person meant was Benedict IX., Pontiff of Borne. sILVester seCVnDVs, who occurs to Caspar Heunischius, is not a dissimilar instance : for Silvester was on the Papal throne, when the 1000th year from the birth of Christ was reckoned ; Benedict, when the 1000th year from His death ; and at one or the other of these