{"id":740,"date":"2009-01-15T13:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-01-15T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T13:11:28","slug":"rescuing-a-bit-of-eusebius-from-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/15\/rescuing-a-bit-of-eusebius-from-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuing a bit of Eusebius from oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things which I hoped for,\u00a0in translating Eusebius “Gospel Questions”, was to find unknown material in the fragments that aren’t in Migne.\u00a0 Yesterday that hope was justified.\u00a0\u00a0 In an obscure publication in Moscow in the 18th century of a catena, an extract from Ad Marinum 2 produced results:<\/p>\n

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At the line marked by my footnote 2, where I saw something was rather unusual about the Greek, it turns out that the Greek word for\u00a0“dawning” came twice, and the scribe of the MS used by Mai (so also Migne and Zamagni) cut two whole lines by going on from the second one after just reaching the first.\u00a0 So we’ll be the first to give our thirsty readers the real thing!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

That said, it’s only the usual verbosely repetitive hammering-in of a point already obvious; \u00a0but still, it’s very nice to have a text that does make sense without straining the Greek, as I did, or ignoring the problem altogether like Mai and Zamagni.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two more lines of ancient literature, rescued from the darkness.\u00a0 It is a small but definite triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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