These are the edition's working notes, published as they were written. They record, work by work, where Migne's plate is defective or the reading uncertain: the printed form, what the English does with it, and why. They are not a groomed apparatus. Where a note argues with itself, withdraws an earlier decision, or leaves a question open, that is the record of how the reading was actually reached, and it is left standing — a conjecture that is visible can be checked, and one that has been tidied away cannot.
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Blind Opus read of the Latin/English pair for sense-reversing defects (one word or one letter asserting the opposite of what the context requires). 1 site(s). Migne's defects are recorded here and rendered literally in the English; our own errors were fixed in place. Full context: data/sweeps/corpus-polarity/REPORT.md.
0659D — sense-reversing-letter (ours, medium confidence)
Printed: Hoc quoque itinere latronum perpessus insidias, dum uni traditur ad custodiendum, evangelica praedicatione latronem convertit ad Christum: et qui [ Al., et cui] traditus fuit ad poenam, factus est ei in salutem.
Conjecture: Migne's text reads 'qui', not 'cui' (the 'cui' is only the Al. variant). Render: 'and he who had been handed over for punishment [i.e. Martin] became salvation to him [the robber].' The English has silently adopted the variant reading and so reversed who saves whom.
The immediately preceding clause makes Martin the one handed over and the robber the one acted upon: 'dum uni traditur ad custodiendum, evangelica praedicatione latronem convertit ad Christum' — 'while he was handed over to one of them to be kept, by evangelical preaching he converted the robber to Christ.' The English sentence then makes the robber ('he to whom he had been handed over') the subject who 'became for him unto salvation', i.e. the captor is salvation to Martin — the opposite of the conversion just narrated. The tell that the reading was switched rather than translated is that the bracketed variant is rendered word-for-word identically to the main text ('and he to whom [ Al., and he to whom]'), so the qui/cui distinction Migne prints has been collapsed onto the variant.