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Act 23:23. Δεξιολάβους διακοσίους, two hundred body-guards)[133] Whether we read ΔΕΞΙΟΛΆΒΟΥς, or from one very old MS., ΔΕΞΙΟΒΌΛΟΥς, the word expresses an unknown kind of soldiers; and concerning each of the two readings, Grotius has made a very few remarks. Therefore we may the more wonder that two hundred of them were in this case ordered to be got ready. An Arabic rendering, mentioned in Erpenius and Ludovicus de Dieu, has eighty. If other witnesses were added to this Arabian one, we might suppose that διακοσἱους crept in from what goes before. At all events for too large a number of soldiers was put in motion against more than forty zealots.[134]
[133] Lit. satellites, who protect the right side of a person, from δέξιος.-E. and T.
[134] BE read δεξιολάβους; but A, δεξιοβόλους. Vulg. and e have lanciarios; Syr. jaculantes dextrâ; Memph. and later Syr. stipatores.-E. and T.