Latin in Barnabas

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Thu Apr 20 05:21:09 EDT 2000


In a message dated 4/20/2000 1:56:36 AM Central Standard Time, 
parousia_occ at yahoo.com writes:

<< 
 Why is it that in the English translation by Kirsopp
 Lake (unedited) in the Loeb Series 10.6-10.8 are in
 Latin?  I have the newer version also, which has it in
 English.  Why would he deliver an old Latin
 translation instead of the English (for the sake of
 his readers)?
  >>

The introductory notes state that there was a Latin version extant in one 
copy only.  Why he would have Latin in the middle of the English, however, is 
a puzzle.  Latin was once the language of scholarship, and the tradition died 
hard.  I seem to recall a story about C.S. Lewis that he was allowed to use a 
Latin translation of the Greek for some work as an aid -- my memory of this 
is somewhat fuzzy since I thought it was a cute story of little importance.  
Then again, perhaps it was a printing error.  What printing was this?

gfsomsel



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