of doubtful meaning. As the next word to it begins a sentence, it must be considered as connected with the words preceding it. I am not satisfied that “silently” or “causing silence” would be a grammatical solution of the question.

[6.] Seized (throughout this chapter) in the juridical sense of seisin or feudal possession.

[7.] Writs

, a reading of three early papyri, which has disappeared in the later ones. The Turin Todtenbuch has