1917 printed page 63 / §§198–203
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Work: Letter of Aristeas
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Letter of Aristeas — H. St. J. Thackeray 1917
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Printed page 63 Original marginal section labels beginning on this page: §198, §199, §200, §201, §202, §203. The opening continues §197 from the preceding page. have no part in them. But God gives a good courage, and we must beseech Him _for the same._" The king warmly commended him and said that all their answers had been good. " I will put a question to yet one more," _he added,_ "and then I will cease for the present, in order that we may turn our thoughts to the enjoyment _of the feast_ and make merry. And in the following six days I will gain further enlightenment from each in turn of t…
- Source
- The Letter of Aristeas, H. St. J. Thackeray, SPCK / Macmillan 1917
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
- Completeness
- Complete identified Letter, printed pages 21–87, original headings I–XII and marginal labels 1–322. Main text, 200 historical translator notes and labelled modern reading cautions are visibly separated. Introduction, blank page 88, appendix from page 89, bibliography and digital wrappers excluded from reading body.
- Review
- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
Recorded provenance: Original English historical translation, not generated translation. ABBYY OCR seeded a full source-scan collation. Corrections and source coordinates are recorded in the three collation JSON files. Printed line wraps joined; paragraph breaks and headings retained. Underscores encode italics; {n} retains page-local footnote links. Main text, historical notes and 2026 editorial cautions have separate visible labels. Source acknowledgment: Robarts Library / University of Toronto via Internet Archive.
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