Latin in Barnabas
Jason Hare
parousia_occ at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 14:17:57 EDT 2000
George,
It was the older version from 1949. The newer one
that I have is the 1998 printing.
Sincerely,
Jason
--- Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
> 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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