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(Latin Vulgate, Esther) : Liber Esther

This is a complete electronic ASCII text of the Book of Esther from the Latin Clementine Vulgate, sections translated from the Greek Septuagint included, with section headers, footnotes, and appendicies.

notes concerning this file:
transcriber: Dennis McCarthy 261 South Colonial Homes Circle, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30309-1226

Dedicated to the Memory of Agnes Dorothy [Baxter] Aldridge (1909 November 22 - 1996 April 20)
1996 December 08 1997 February 02 (revised)
Source: P. Michael Hetzenauer, Ord. Min. Cap. editor. Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis: Sixti V Pont. Max. Iussa Recognita et Clemens VIII Auctoritate Edita. Neo Eboraci et Cincinnati: apud Fr. Pustet & Co. 1914.
I have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost the source's paragraph structure. 2) I exploded the ligatures for "ae" and "oe" into two characters rather than one character for each diphthong. 3) I capitalized all of the section headings which were either in bold or italicized print originally. These sections headings may not be original to the Vulgate, but then neither are verse numbers. 4) I have included alternate line numbers in the headers to the sections translated from the Greek Sepuagint version. These alternate chater/verse numbers correspond to the numbering of these sections in the New American Bible, which follows the Septuagint arrangement, rather than the Vulgate arrangement which places all of those sections at the end. 5) In all references to verses I used a colon to separate the chapter number and verse number rather than a comma as in the source. 6) I placed the footnote designators in parentheses and re-lettered them for the whole body of the text. The original recycled to "a" for each new page. I also arranged the cross reference footnotes themselves into one chart at the end of the text. 7) I moved the marginal notations into an appendix.
Please note that some sentence-like sections end with a period, but the following line does not begin with a capital letter. I recommend that this format remain. The source's editor seems to have been quite confident in the propriety of this approach. I have retained all of the source's capitalization and punctuation except for the section headers.
65 is the target line length, but because of the length of many of the Latin words, my desire not to create "orphan" words, and a genuine lack of talent on the part of the transcriber for such matters, the margination is rather ragged.

Beginning of this Project Gutenberg Etext of "Liber Esther"

LIBER ESTHER.

PARS PRIOR. NARRATIONES PROTOCANONICAE, 1:1-10:3.

I. PERICULUM IUDAEORUM, 1:1-4:17.
1. REGINA VASTHI EICITUR, 1:1-22.
1:1 In diebus Assueri, qui regnavit ab India usque Aethiopiam super centum viginti septem provincias:
1:2 quando sedit in solio regni sui, Susan civitas regni eius exordium fuit.
1:3 Tertio igitur anno imperii sui fecit grande convivium cunctis principibus, et pueris suis, fortissimis Persarum, et Medorum inclytis, et praefectis provinciarum coram se,
1:4 ut ostenderet divitias gloriae regni sui, ac magnitudinem, atque iactantiam potentiae suae, multo tempore, centum videlicet et octoginta diebus.
1:5 Cumque implerentur dies convivii, invitavit omnem populum, qui inventus est in Susan, a maximo usque ad minimum: et iussit septem diebus convivium praeparari in vestibulo horti, et nemoris, quod regio cultu et manu consitum erat.
1:6 Et pendebant ex omni parte tentoria aerii coloris et carbasini ac hyacinthini, sustentata funibus byssinis, atque purpureis, qui eburneis circulis inserti erant, et columnis marmoreis fulciebantur. Lectuli quoque aurei et argentei, super pavimentum smaragdino et pario stratum lapide, dispositi erant: quod mira varietate pictura decorabat.
1:7 Bibebant autem qui invitati erant, aureis poculis, et aliis atque aliis vasis cibi inferebantur. Vinum quoque, ut magnificentia regia dignum erat, abundans, et praecipuum ponebatur.
1:8 Nec erat qui nolentes cogeret ad bibendum, sed sicut rex statuerat, praeponens mensis singulos de principibus suis ut sumeret unusquisque quod vellet.
1:9 Vasthi quoque regina fecit convivium feminarum in palatio, ubi rex Assuerus manere consueverat.
1:10 Itaque die septimo, cum rex esset hilarior, et post nimiam potationem incaluisset mero, praecepit Maumam, et Bazatha, et Harbona, et Bagatha et Abgatha, et Zethar, et Charchas, septem eunuchis, qui in conspectu eius ministrabant,
1:11 ut introducerent reginam Vasthi coram rege, posito super caput eius diademate, ut ostenderet cunctis populis et principibus pulchritudinem illius: erat enim pulchra valde.
1:12 Quae renuit, et ad regis imperium, quod per eunuchos mandaverat, venire contempsit. Unde iratus rex, et nimio furore succensus,
1:13 interrogavit sapientes, qui ex