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4 i 8 THE HISTORY OF A not wholly) such as KI/CI, o-i/ce/Da, etc., where the Greek happens to tally with the Hebrew. In another place he describes it as ' now forgotten and out of date ; and noticeable to a biographer of Thorndike principally for the pious ascription of glory to the Most High, with which it concludes/ Unfortunately even the ' pious ascription/ which is, at best, nothing more than the conventional 'Laus Deo/ turns out to be merely reprinted from the original Schindler ; and the same is true of the forty odd G*eek words. The lexicon is, in fadt, exa<5tly what it sets out to be in the Schindler issue viz., an epitome of Valentine Schindler's ' Lexicon pentaglotton/ pub- lished posthumously at Hanover in 1612, the 1992 columns of the latter being reduced to 559 by the omission of the examples and such abbreviations as ' duo significat ' for the original c duo significata habet/ Beyond this I cannot find that one jot or tittle has been added or altered. The ' Rasche Theboth/ I ought to add, is not epitomized, but is reprinted in full from the original Schindler. Mr. Haddan's suggestion that ' Keu- chenius would appear to have superintended the printing of the book in London ' is, therefore, without foundation, though the British Museum Catalogue has lent colour to it by noting the c Rasche Theboth ' as appearing in the Epitome and in the later edition of the complete work, but making no mention of its presence in the original edition of 1612, where, however, it is to be found. Before attempting to estimate Thorndike's share in the work, we must go back to the supposed