[B-Greek] Josephus Against Apion 2:11

Paul Toseland toseland at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Jan 31 09:10:45 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



 








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