225 “Frustra ad Ammonium aut Tatianum in Harmoniis provocant. Quæ supersunt vix quicquam cum Ammonio aut Tatiano commune habent.” (Tischendorf _on S. Mark_ xvi. 8).—Dr. Mill (1707),—because he assumed that the anonymous work which Victor of Capua brought to light in the vith century, and conjecturally assigned to Tatian, was the lost work of Ammonius, (_Proleg._ p. 63, § 660,)—was of course warranted in appealing to the authority of Ammonius _in support_ of the last twelve verses of S. Mark’s Gospel. But in truth Mill’s assumption cannot be maintained for a moment, as Wetstein has convincingly shewn. (_Proleg._ p. 68.) Any one may easily satisfy himself of the fact who will be at the pains to examine a few of the chapters with attention, bearing in mind what Eusebius has said concerning the work of Ammonius. Cap. lxxiv, for instance, contains as follows:—Mtt. xiii. 33, 34. Mk. iv. 33. Mtt. xiii. 34, 35: 10, 11. Mk. iv. 34. Mtt. xiii. 13 to 17. But here it is _S. Matthew’s Gospel_ which is dislocated,—for verses 10, 11, and 13 to 17 of ch. xiii. come _after_ verses 33-35; while ver. 12 has altogether disappeared. The most convenient edition for reference is Schmeller’s,—_Ammonii Alexandrini quæ et Tatiani dicitur Harmonia Evangeliorum_. (Vienna, 1841.) 226 Only by the merest license of interpretation can εἰληφὼς ἀφορμάς be assumed to mean that Eusebius had found the four Gospels ready divided to his hand by Ammonius into exactly 1165 sections,—every one of which he had simply adopted for his own. Mill, (who nevertheless held this strange opinion,) was obliged to invent the wild hypothesis that Eusebius, _besides_ the work of Ammonius which he describes, must have found in the library at Cæsarea the private copy of the Gospels which belonged to Ammonius,—an unique volume, in which the last-named Father (as he assumes) will have numbered the Sections and made them exactly 1165. It is not necessary to discuss such a notion. We are dealing with facts,—not with fictions. 227 For proofs of what is stated above, as well as for several remarks on the (so-called) “Ammonian” Sections, the reader is referred to the Appendix (G). 228 See above, p. 128, note (f). 229 See above, p. 125. 230 As a matter of fact, Codices abound in which the Sections are noted _without_ the Canons, throughout. See more on this subject in the Appendix (G). 231 τέσσαρα εἰσιν εὐαγγέλια κεφαλαίων χιλίων ἑκατὸν ἑξηκονταδύο. The words are most unexpectedly, (may I not say _suspiciously_?), found in Epiphanius, _Ancor._ 50, (_Opp._ ii. 54 B.) 232 By Tischendorf, copying Mill’s _Proleg._ p. 63, § 662:—the fontal source, by the way, of the twin references to “Epiphanius and Cæsarius.”