There are remarkable assonances in the original of this verse: ‘judgment...oppression,’ mishpat, mispach; ‘righteousness...a city,’ tz’ dākah, tz’ ākah. These no translator could expect to reproduce successfully. Compare ver. I of this chapter, kerem, ‘vineyard,’ qeren, ‘horn.’ Lowth gives a list of similar effects, xiii. 6, xxiv. 17 xxvii. 7, xxxiii. lvii. 6, lxi. 3, lxv. 11, 12. There are others, of perhaps subtler character, recalling the alliterations of Virgil rather than of Lucretius, a few letters recurring in various combinations. Chapters xiv.. xvii., xxiv. are rich in these. Notice, e.g., the use of p, ABBREV xvii. 2; ABBREV in xxix. 5; γ and τ in xxv. 2–5. ἀνομίαν] It seems hardly needful to suppose that LXX. read ABBREV for ABBREV . ἔμεινα] The Ist person seems less natural here than in ver. 4 Vulg. however expectavi. 8. The danger to the character and welfare of a state, from increasing luxury, which tends to separate the people into widely distinct classes. Cf. Amos ii. 7, Micah ii. 2. See also Sallust, Catil. xx. “Quis...tolerare potest...illos binas, aut amplius, domos continuare ?... cum tabulas, signa, toreumata emunt, nova diruunt, alia aedificant” Tacitus, Ann. 111. 53, “villarum infinita spatia”: the early chapters Livy, book xxxxv. and Hon, Od. 11. xviii. “Quid, quod usque proximos ζRevellis agri terminos et ultra Limites clientium Salis avarus?’ or Οd. 111. i. 33 foll., xxiv. 3 (011.; a host of passages of like import might be collected. ἵνα τοῦ πλησίον ἀφέλωνταί τι] The verb must be due to Lxx. having read ABBREV ‘there be none’ as ABBREV perhaps ABBREV ‘they take πλησίον might be ABBREV E ‘until,’ read as ABBREV E ‘neighbour’ but if ABBREV E was represented by the conjunction, ABBREV might have been paraphrased, or even read as ABBREV ‘from (one) near’: finally ABBREV ‘in omitted, cf. xix. I, 14, &c.; and the interrogative may come reading .1, sign of the passive causative (Hophal) in that sense.