Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317113492
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

27 The direct tradition of the DM is almost uniform in having it (see Lorimer’s apparatus), and it is unlikely that it is simply a later gloss.

While a reader perusing the De Mundo in Greek might be expected to know, or at least be able to figure out, the references to etymological explanation, a reader going through the text in Syriac cannot be expected to have the same knowledge and ability available to him. Sergius, therefore, responsibly makes additions to the text in his translation to make these sections more palatable to his Syriac audience. In his discussion of the meaning of aether, Sergius supplies the information (109rb5–7) b-yaḏ d-ḏāmē (h)u šmā hānā da-mšalhḇē b-yawnāyā l-aṯir (‘because the word for “glowing hot” in Greek resembles [the word] aether’), on the name Olympus (120ra18–25) dumyā gēr da-šmēh da-šmayyā b-lešānā yawnāyā, a(y)ḵ tḥumā iṯāw(hy) da-l‘el, meṭṭul da-l-šmayyā qārēn lēh uranos, wa-l-tḥumā oros, wa-l‘el anon (‘for the likeness of the noun “heaven” in the Greek language is as “the limit above”, for they call “heaven” ouranos, “limit” oros,28 and “above” anōn’),29 and, although the connection is not fully clear, he is obviously trying to give his readers some etymological information from Greek in his mention of Peprōmenē (121vb25–33).

28 Not horos: the pronunciation of the rough breathing had long since passed away in Greek.

29 Sic! What can explain the ending in -n? There is a phenomenon in Jewish Palestinian Aramaic where indeclinable words ending in a long vowel appear with -n (E.Y. Kutscher, Studies in Galilean Aramaic [trans. M. Sokoloff, Ramat-Gan, 1976], p. 61 with the literature at n. 79), and analogous behaviour may have taken place here.

In the classification of winds in Chapter Four, we find several changes. Here (394b19ff.) the four main types are given according to origin and are then further subdivided. It will be instructive to examine some of the differences between the Greek and Syriac texts. In the section on the Eὖροι, the order of the wind-names in Greek is καικίας, ἀπηλιώτης, εὖρος, but the last is second in Syriac: maḏnḥāyā (‘eastern’), then qaiqiyas (a transliteration of the Greek name), ending with apiliyoṭis (again, a transliteration), but, in the case of ἀπηλιώτης and εὖρος, only the order of the names is different, not the order of the descriptions, the result being that the description of the Syriac apiliyoṭis actually matches the Greek description of εὖρος, etc. Additionally, ἀπὸ τοῦ…τόπου πνέων occurs only once in Greek, but in Syriac (d-nāšeḇ men atrā, ‘blowing from the place’, as in Greek) it appears with all three wind descriptions. In the list of Zέφυροι, the first two (of three) names, with their proper descriptions, have been switched: Greek ἀργέστης, ζέφυρος, λίψ; but Syriac ma‘rbāyā (‘western’ = ζέφυρος), then agrēsṭis (sic, with metathesis of r and g), then libā. In the list of Bορέαι, the wind θρασκίας has its proper definition, but it is in the second place in Syriac, not the third, as in Greek. The other two winds, βορέας and ἀπαρκτίας, have

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