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ALthough (a) the Iewes.] No man now a daies sheweth an error, and leaueth it. Man∣kind is not so wise. Againe, time gayneth credit vnto many: and nothing but time vn∣to some. But it is admirable to see how gently hee speaketh here of Hierome: whose opinion he followed not in this high controuersie. O that wee could immitate him! (b) Marking.] of this Hierome speaketh Prolog. in Paralip. Origen was the first that tooke the paines to con∣•…•… * 1.1 the translation, and he conferred the seauenty with Theodotion, Hier. ep. id August. where he inueigheth at what hee had erst commended: saying that the booke is not corrected but rather corrupted by those asteriskes, and spits. [But this he said because Augustine would not meddle with his translation, but held that of the seauenty so sacred, this power oftentimes * 1.2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 affection in the holiest men.] (c) Asteriskes.] Little stars (d) Ounces.] It seemes the o•…•…ce in old times was marked with a spits character. Isido•…•…e saith it was marked with the Greeke Gamma, and our o: thus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and the halfe scruple with a line thus—they noted those places with a spit, thus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to signifie that the words so no•…•…ed, were thrust through as ad∣•…•…, falsefiing the text. It was Aristarchus his inuention vsed by the Grammarians in their 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of bookes and verses. Quinti. lib. 1. Which the old Grammarians vsed with such seuerity 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they did not onely taxe false places, or bookes hereby, but also thrust their authors either 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of their ranke or wholy from the name of Grammarians. Thus Quintilian. Seneca did ele∣•…•… call the rasing out of bastard verses, Aristarchus his notes.