Crossword-Solution: APAS 4 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Probably we should read [Greek: taxontas] for [Greek: taxantas].] [Footnote 140: [Greek: eplêroun dia tôn boêthein autois tetagmenôn] (? Adjutores).] [Footnote 141: [Greek: epi tou nôtou tês entuchias grammasin aidous autothen apasês kai exousias onkô sesobêmenois].] If the suggestion that the Primiscrinii were considered as in some sense substitutes (Adjutores) for the Cornicularius be correct, we may perhaps account for there being two of them in the days of Lydus by the disappearance of the Princeps.

Mar Apas Catina found an old MS containing a history of ancient Armenia which bore the name of no author, and which was translated from Chaldean to Greek by order of Alexander the Great.

The old MS being lost, the translation by Mar Apas Catina and the first part of the history of Moses are given as identical to each other in Langlois' collection of Armenian historians.

But there is also another analogy which offers us the means of understanding how the equivoque of kaçapas, confused with kaććhapas, and which afterwards became kaçyapas or tortoise, became popular, just through the word _kûrmas_, which, as we have said, means a tortoise.

The ideas of weighty and curved being united in both the mandaras and the kaçapas, the tortoise, as kûrmas, serves well for this office of a carrier, an assertion I venture to make, inasmuch as in _kûr-mas_ I think I can recognise the same root which appears in the Sanskṛit _gur-u-s_, fem.