[B-Greek] Josephus Ant. 18.6.7

Thomas J. Kraus t.j.kraus at web.de
Tue Aug 21 04:21:23 EDT 2007


Dear Colleagues,

In his Antiquitates judaicae 18.6.7 Flavius Josephus writes:
BOUBWNA DE hOI RWMAIOI TON ORNIN TOUTON KALOUSIN.

My major interest is on BOUBWNA: recently I found in an essay that BOUBWN
should have been integrated into Greek from Latin bubo. Another form
mentioned that should correspond with Latin bubo should be BUAS (but I do
not see any morphological link with this).

Questions:
(1) Does anybody know anything about such a link (is it plausible)?
(2) Does anybody know other instances in which BOUBWN (or BUAS) are used?

Thanks in advance for reflecting about this
semantic/etymological/morphological issue.

Best,

Thomas J. Kraus




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