382 ([return])
[ i.e. the delay.]
383 ([return])
[ Lit. "he thanked his mother and thought (or made) much of her goodness (istekthera bi-kheiriha, a common modern expression, signifying simply 'he thanked her') for her toil." Burton, "Then he thanked his parent, showing her how her good work had exceeded her toil and travail ">[
384 ([return])
[ Lit. "Wonder took her at this wonder and the decoration." Burton amplifies, "She wondered at the marvellous sight and the glamour of the scene." Me judice, to put it in the vernacular, she simply wondered what the dickens it was all about.]
385 ([return])
[ Min wectiha. Burton, "And for some time, O my son, I have suspected." See ante, p. 134. {see FN#378}]
386 ([return])
[ Lit. "fever seized him of his chagrin.">[