[B-Greek] Josephus Against Apion 2:11
TICHY Ladislav
tichy at cmtfnw.upol.cz
Tue Feb 3 07:55:31 EST 2004
> Josephus, Against Apion 2.11:
>
> ANTI DE OBELWN ESTHSE KIONAS hUF' hOIS HN EKTUPWMA SKAFH SKIA D' ANDROS
> EP' AUTHN DIAKEIMENH hWS hOTI EN AIQERI TOUTON AEI TON DROMON hHLIWi
> SUMPERIPOLEI
>
> I don't understand Whiston's translation. He has
>
> 'that, he also set up pillars instead of gnomons, which was represented
> a cavity like that of a boat, and the
> shadow that fell from their tops fell down upon that cavity, that it
> might go round about the like course as
> the sun itself goes round in the other [sic?]'
>
> How does ANDROS fit in?
>
> So I attempted my own translation, but I hit some problems. Could
> someone help me fix it?
>
> '[Apion also says that] nstead of obelisks he [Moses] set up pillars,
> under which was a figure in relief, a
> concave sundial. [...] For(?) he always goes round this course in the
> sky together with the sun.'
>
> I am unsure how to deal with the absence of a finite verb in the clause
> SKIA D' ANDROS EP'
> AUTHN DIAKEIMENH. Also I am not sure what to make of hWS hOTI; could the
> combination possibly be causal ('for')? Or is hWS quite independent of hOTI?
>
> Many thanks
> Paul Toseland
The translation of Against Apion 2, 11 by H. St. J. Thackeray is as
follows:
"In place of obelisks he set up pilllars, beneath which was a model of a
boat; and the shadow cast on this basin by the satue described a circle
corresponding to the course of the sun in the heavens."
He has an emendation of the Greek text. He reads ADRIANTOS instead
of ANDROS.
Ladislav Tichy
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