From: Daniel Ria–o (danielrr@mad.servicom.es)
Date: Thu Dec 25 1997 - 14:29:20 EST
>Greetings
>This is obviously not the time to be posting an enquiry but maybe some of
>you lucky ones got new CD Roms for Christmas that might help!
>
>Does anyone have the greek text context (full text or just the paragraph) of
>either of the following:
>
>As certain of your own poets have said; "for we also are his offspring"
>(Acts 17:28)
Aratus "Phaenomena" 5.
E)k Dio\s a)rxw/mesqa, to\n ou)de/pot' a)/ndres e)w=men
a)/rrhton: mestai\ de\ Dio\s pa=sai me\n a)guiai/,
pa=sai d' a)nqrw/pwn a)gorai/, mesth\ de\ qa/lassa
kai\ lime/nes: pa/nth de\ Dio\s kexrh/meqa pa/ntes.
5
*Tou= ga\r kai\ ge/nos ei)me/n*. O( d' h)/pios a)nqrw/poisi
decia\ shmai/nei, laou\s d' e)pi\ e)/rgon e)gei/rei
mimnh/skwn bio/toio:
>
>Even one of their own prophets has said "Cretans are always liars, evil
>brutes, lazy gluttons" (Titus 1:12 NIV)
Krh=tes a)ei\ yeu=stai, kaka\ qhri/a, gaste/res a)rgai/
This is attributed (by. ia. Hieronimus in his commentary to this place) to
Epimenides (himself from Crete, S. VI/V a.C.) and has no context (it is Fr.
1 Diehls-Kranz). The first part of the hexameter is repeated in Callimachus
Hymm.1.8, and there can be an allusion to it in Aratus 30. Both texts
(Aratus and Callim.) are in vol. 129 of the Loeb series, with good notes.
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