Latin in Barnabas
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Thu Apr 20 17:45:37 EDT 2000
In a message dated 4/20/2000 6:21:56 AM Central Standard Time,
behrman at email.unc.edu writes:
<<
Lake is following the old tradition of not offending the sensitivies of
English readers, a tradition widespread among translators of the 19th
century (his Loeb translation of course was 1912-13) and seen for example
in passages (*long* ones) in the ANF (e.g., in Clement of Alexandria's
STromateis). THe idea was that if a text was highly charged in terms of
sexual content, it was to be rendered into Latin to prevent offence but to
allow scholars access to it. (In this case, I believe, Lake didn't
translate into Latin but used the surviving Latin version; the editors'
later English translation, I might add, is none too good -- completely
misses the point about the rabbit!)
>>
This sounds valid to me.
gfsomsel
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