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10. Ba(3v\ojv 7] c ToXig rj iayvpa, Babylon the strong city) Ilia civitas Valida , Tertull. de Cultu Foem. c. 12. 'Pw/x^ strength. The earlier inhabitants had called it Valentia , the Greek settlers, Rome. You may also refer D'DIVV, the strong , Isa. liii. 12, to the name of Rome. The place, as expressing a mark, is much stronger in the writings of the prophets than of the philosophers. In like manner, chariots and axes (nemXsxnifievcdv, u beheaded with an axd'), peculiarly cha- racteristic of the Romans, are specified, ver. 13, ch. xx. 4.
11. etc. ro'ttov,1 x.r.X.) The construction is easy from yo/xov to crpo- fiura, and ^vyac coheres with these in the same case ; but at /Wwi/, peduv, (Su'AaruV) you may understand afresh yoyov : for horses , chariots , and slaves , are serviceable for the conveyance of different kinds of merchandise. There is a mixture of cases, as in Hippocr. de Hu- moribus, ch. 25. Pricaeus is very full, in setting forth this enume- ration. If you examine the Romish Ceremonial , you may see that all kinds of these wares repeatedly occur in abundance.
12. Qvivov) 6v a is, according to some, citria :2 but citria is xirpt a, Ova, thya. The latter tree is also fragrant ; and thus the citria is not unlike some kinds of thya. See Plin. 1. xiii. ch. 16 throughout. There is no place here for ebony , but shortly afterwards. — ex guXou n[MwruroV) of most precious wood ) For guXou, some African copies read Xtdov, from the alliteration to the preceding words.3 4 Vessels are not made out of most precious stone, but out of precious stone, or out of most precious w*ood. Such especially is ebony , which is often mentioned together with ivory. The one excels in whiteness, the other in blackness; each is of remarkable smoothness. See Fuller’s Misc. 1. 6, c. 14. — yaXxov, x.r.X .) of brass, and iron , and marble.
13. " A/au/xov, amomum ) A kind of shrub, the wood of which affords a sweet odour. [ This reading is not to be omitted. Amomum is pleasing to the people of Italy. 4 — Not. Crit.] — xa) xttjvti, xai Kpofiaru, and beasts of burden , and sheep) These kinds differ, as "ipl and
1 But the reading yopoq also, ver. 12, is preferred in the margin of each Edition. — E. B.
But the oldest authorities read yopov. Vulg. “merces,” ver. 11; “mercem,” ver. 12.— E.
2 Citria ) [rather ‘ citrea,’ the citrus- tree of Africa : Plin. xvi. 44, xiii. 15. Citria are gourds. The citrus is the Greek Thuega articulata , Desfont. — E.] a fragrant wood used by the Romans for furniture. — T.
3 And thus Ed. ii., together with Vers. Germ., gives the palm to the reading I'v'hov, the judgment o/Ed. maj. being abandoned. — E. B.
A and Vulg. read x/0ov : so Lachm. But BC/<, gyAou : so Tisch. — E.
4 AC Vulg. Syr. read oLy.ug.ov. B Memph. h omit it. — E.
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