From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 05:21:09 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/2000 1:56:36 AM Central Standard Time,
parousia_occ@yahoo.com writes:
<<
Why is it that in the English translation by Kirsopp
Lake (unedited) in the Loeb Series 10.6-10.8 are in
Latin? I have the newer version also, which has it in
English. Why would he deliver an old Latin
translation instead of the English (for the sake of
his readers)?
>>
The introductory notes state that there was a Latin version extant in one
copy only. Why he would have Latin in the middle of the English, however, is
a puzzle. Latin was once the language of scholarship, and the tradition died
hard. I seem to recall a story about C.S. Lewis that he was allowed to use a
Latin translation of the Greek for some work as an aid -- my memory of this
is somewhat fuzzy since I thought it was a cute story of little importance.
Then again, perhaps it was a printing error. What printing was this?
gfsomsel
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