{"id":4122,"date":"2010-04-30T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:58:27","slug":"from-my-diary-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/30\/from-my-diary-16\/","title":{"rendered":"From my diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The carmen adversus paganos<\/em> is a late 4th century poem which is one of only four texts that record the Taurobolium<\/em>.\u00a0 This ritual was when a bull was slaughtered over a grill, with people standing underneath to get bathed in the bull’s blood.\u00a0 So I asked someone to do a translation.\u00a0 Unfortunately it looks as if an English translation may already exist.\u00a0 It’s hard to bring myself to pay for translating stuff that exists already in English, although inaccessible, when there is so much for which no translation exists.<\/p>\n

I’ve finished the first stage of translating the first sermon of Severian of Gabala on the creation.\u00a0 I need to look at a few difficult passages, and make sure they’re right, and then I will put it online.\u00a0 Interestingly Severian is preaching to a hostile audience, or so it seems.<\/p>\n

I’m still going through volume 3 of Quasten’s Patrology<\/em>.\u00a0 There are quite a few interesting-sounding texts that ought to be translated.\u00a0 I just wish I had more money!\u00a0 I’m thinking again about Cyril of Alexandria’s Contra Julianum<\/em>, against the work of the emperor Julian the Apostate attacking the Christians.\u00a0 This is only about 500 columns, so might be possible.<\/p>\n

The translation of Severian’s De pace<\/em>, preached when he reconciled with John Chrysostom, has been requested.\u00a0 But I\u00a0suspect I will not be able to reach terms with the translator.\u00a0 He seems to know his Greek; unfortunately he does not have the native-speaker level command of English which a translator needs.\u00a0 This means I will have to hire someone else to fix that, which means I can’t offer him much.\u00a0 So … probably a bust.\u00a0 I’m also wondering what to do about the Armenian sermons of Severian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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