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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