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I agree that it is clearly aror, and not oror. I made some speculative considerations about this in my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Section 4). Actually, aror sheey occurs also in f104r. Job's VQP tracks it as a single word "arorsheey" in this instance.

Well spotted! I'd say it could be two words on 104r as well, there seems to be a smallish gap between the aror and the sheey.

Regarding finding a Greek version of the Alexander Romance, wikipedia lists a bunch of them here:
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They say:
"The oldest version of the Greek text, the Historia Alexandri Magni (Recensio α), can be dated to the 3rd century. It was subjected to various revisions during the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., some of them recasting it into poetical form in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. vernacular."
I agree it would be worthwhile to look for parallels in these, although I'll probably not be of much use here, considering my total lack of proficiency in Greek.

I understand this was published by Kroll in 1926, reissued in 1968, but I found no free version in the internet. Maybe, someone has the book and can check.

Continuing about "oladabas". If the beginning is Greek, there is no "dabas" in Greek. On the other hand, the ending is Latin - "dabas" is second person imperfect for "do" ("to give")), but no "ola" in Latin. Actually the ending "bas" is characteristic for 2nd person imperfect, so the verb conjugated in such a way would be something like "olado", but there is no such verb in Latin.

Supposing it's not a "d", but an ornate "v", there is "lavo" (to wash), but no "olavo".



As to the "multos". If we suppose that it's not an "o", but an "e" (indeed the letter is strangely shaped and ambiguos), then "multes" is second person conjunctive of "multo" (= to punish). However, "te" as accusative or ablative from "tu" (= you) seems to be out of place after a 2nd person conjunctive, doesn't it?