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Chapter XXXVII.—How the Copies were provided.
Such were the emperor’s commands, which were followed by the
immediate execution of the work itself, which we sent him in
magnificent and elaborately bound volumes of a threefold and fourfold
form.3336
| 3336 [The parchment copies were usually arranged in quaternions, i.e.
four leaves made up together, as the ternions consisted of three
leaves. The quaternions each contained sixteen pages, the ternions
twelve (Valesius in loc.).—Bag.] So probably, although the
three-columned form of the Sinaiticus and the four of the Vaticanus
suggest a possible other meaning. | This fact is attested by another
letter, which the emperor wrote in acknowledgment, in which, having
heard that the city Constantia in our country, the inhabitants of which
had been more than commonly devoted to superstition, had been impelled
by a sense of religion to abandon their past idolatry, he testified his
joy, and approval of their conduct.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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