x. 18. Is any light thrown on the use of ὁτοσβεσθήσεται by
Ecclus. xliil. 21? καταφάγεται ὅρη καὶ ἴρημον ἐκκαύσεις, καὶ ἀποσβέσει
χλόην ὡς πῦρ. In some, at any rate, of its compounds, σβεννύναι is
used in senses rather different from the quenching of fire: see
Aeschylus, Agata. 887,
 κλαυμάτων ἐπίσσυτοι πηγαὶ κατεσβήκασιν, οὐδ’ ἔνι σταγών. 
And again, 958
 ἔστιν θάλασσα, τίς δέ νιν κατασβέσεις 
Also Septcm c. Thcbas 584
 μητρός τε πηγὴν τίς κατασβέσει δίκης 
Lxx. must, on this supposition, while rendering ABBREV by the pass. of
ἀποσβεννύναι, have used the verb with a secondary sense to help the
meaning. xi. 9. On ’opmu, see Vol. 1. pp. 26, 109. It represents ABBREV 
which is elsewhere in Lxx. οἰκουμένη, as in xiii. 11, xiv. 17, xxiv. 4, c.
with or without ὅλη: or simply γῆ, as in xiv. 21, xxvi. 9, 18, c. ABBREV 
is frequently parallel to ABBREV as in xxiv. 4. In classical Creek the
phrase is to be found, as it were, in the making, Aristoph.
Cloud: 203:
 ΜΑΘ. γῆν ἀναμετρεῖσθαι ΣΤΡ. πότερα τὴν κληρουχικὴν; MAG. οὔκ. ἀλλὰ τὴν σύμπασαν. ΣΤΡ. ἀστεῖον λέγεις. xi. 14. verso-Meow occurs also Ps. lv. 6. xiv. 6. Many critics support the emendation ABBREV ‘rule’ ( ‘tramplings,’
Cheyne) for ABBREV ‘pursuit.’ See notes in various commentaries,
esp. Cheyne, Skinner, Alexander. I doubt whether ’s παίων can
be fairly quoted in support of this, their rendering being hardly exact
in any case. They do not support the converse change of n to ἢ pro-
posed in 2 Kings x. 32 (συνκόπτειν), ABBREV ‘to be angry’ for ABBREV 
cut short. xiv. 19. νεκρὸς ἐβδελυγμένος. Cf. the addition to Ps. xxxviii. 21
found in R and other authorities. It is possible that met. confused
various clauses of ver. 19, 20 in translating.