The same would hold good (with only a slight and apparent exception) of the longer strings of quotations in cc.

viii, xxix, and (from [Greek: aegapaesan] to [Greek: en auto]) in c.xv.But here the question is complicated by the possibility, and in the first place at least perhaps probability, that the writer is quoting from some apocryphal work no longer extant.

It may be interesting to give one or two short examples of the completeness with which the process of welding has been carried out.

Thus in c.

xvii, the following reply is put into the mouth of Moses when he receives his commission at the burning bush, [Greek: tis eimi ego hoti me pempeis; ego de eimi ischnophonos kai braduglossos.] The text of Exod.iii.11 is [Greek: tis eimi ego, oti poreusomai;] the rest of the quotation is taken from Exod.iv.10.In c.