:TEXT: "the island was called Malta." (Greek, "Melite-") : p74 S A B3 C P Psi 33 81 614 945 1241 1739 2495 Byz Lect later vg syr(p) cop(south) : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: BNOTES: "the island was called Melite-ne-." : B* two lat earlier vg syr(h) cop(north) : ASVn NASVnOTHER: "the island was called Mutile-ne-." : three lat : The reading Melite-ne- probably arose through a mistake of the eye, when the first two letters of the following word "island" were seen twice.