Acts 25:26

τί γράψω with אABC. Vulg. ‘quid scribam.’

26. τῷ κυρίῳ, to my lord. Octavianus by an edict forbade the title ‘Lord’ to be given to him. The practice had its rise from parasites; but you find ‘Dominus’ often used in Pliny’s letters to Trajan, so that not many emperors were like Octavian.

ἐφ' ὑμῶν, before you. Spoken with a glance towards the chief priests and great personages who were present on the bench.

καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ σοῦ, and especially before thee, i.e. as one most likely to be able to clear up the difficulties which I feel about the prisoner.

τῆς�, the examination having been made. The English of A.V. is very idiomatic, ‘after examination had.’ In classical Greek ἀνάκρισις is used of a preliminary examination of a cause before the Archon, to see whether there is ground for proceeding further. So Festus uses the technical term in its proper sense.

σχῶ τί γράψω, I may have somewhat to write. Lit. ‘what I may write.’ With this use of the interrogative τί, where in classical Greek a relative would have been used, cf. Matthew 10:19, δοθήσεται ὑμῖν … τί λαλήσετε.