[100] i. e. “on which they bear rule”—a well-known astrological phrase.
[101] i. e. “rises and sets with them.”
[102] This cannot mean that it is one of the days when the evil stars rule. Probably some words like “which God has chosen” are omitted.
[103] Did Alcibiades or Elchasai consider Trajan’s successful campaign against the Parthians a calamity?
[104] Ἄρκτων, lit., “of the Bears.” Thus Cruice. But it is probably another case of putting plurals for singulars.
[105] It is said that this is an unfulfilled prediction which fixes the date of Elchasai’s book. If, however, we take Trajan’s invasion of Parthia at A.D. 113, which seems the most likely date, the rebellion of the Jews in the Cyrenaica, Egypt and Cyprus broke out within the three years mentioned and raged until it was suppressed by Marcius Turbo and Lusius Quietus, about the end of 116. The book may therefore well be later than this.
[106] A possible allusion to Matt. vii. 6.
[107] For the reason of this omission see Introduction, supra.
[108] μηδὲ σιωπήσας, “when I have not kept silence about”—a roundabout phrase.
[109] This promise is fulfilled by the peroration of Book X. This shows the close connection between the Summary and the first nine Books, and proves that the author of Book X, if not Hippolytus himself, was at any rate some one who wished to be taken for him.