The Generalist By Didymus (Prospect January)

[kapple999]

got 2 I need to crack a bottleneck ...

An impossible fancy – hen’s production in rosewater (4,2,9) : EGGS IN ???????N?

Old version of the bible prepared from the septuagint and which preceded the vulgate (6) : I?A???

Thanks in anticipation

[Mamyalynne]

Eggs in Moonshine

[kapple999]

Thankyou !

[scorpiojo]

I thought it was Jerome..

[kapple999]

Scorpiojo - it could well be - the other letters are a bit of a guess

[slaney]

Italic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetus_Latina

[Mamyalynne]

Super!

[scorpiojo]

Thank you :)

[donny48]

Itala although a letter short
His advice to readers is to give a preference to the Itala, "which is more faithful in its renderings and more intelligible in its sense." What the Itala is, has been greatly discussed. Formerly it was taken to be a summary designation of all the versions before Jerome's time. But Professor Burkitt (Texts and Studies, IV) strongly urges the view that by this term Augustine designates Jerome's Vulgate,