Latin in Barnabas

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Thu Apr 20 18:31:22 EDT 2000


In a message dated 4/20/2000 4:12:41 PM Central Standard Time, 
sjrv at myhometown.net writes:

<< 
 > 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 is the case with the Schaff ed. of Clement's Paedagogus, Book II 
Chapter X.
 Does anyone know of an English translation of that Chapter?
  >>
In regard to the comment that the Latin was for the sake of propriety, note 
the note on Paedagogus II, X

212 188 For obvious reasons, we have given the greater part of this chapter 
in the Latin version. [Much of this chapter requires this sacrifice to a 
proper verecundia; but the learned translators have possibly been to 
cautious, erring, however, on the right side of the question.]

This was taken from the online version at my old alma mater, Calvin College.

<A HREF="http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/footnote/fn40.htm#P4035_1240508">
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-02/footnote/fn40.htm#P4035_1240508</A>

gfsomsel



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