From: John M. Moe (sjrv@myhometown.net)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 13:14:38 EDT
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Polycarp66@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/20/2000 6:21:56 AM Central Standard Time,
> behrman@email.unc.edu writes:
>
> <<
> Lake is following the old tradition of not offending the sensitivies of
> English readers, a tradition widespread among translators of the 19th
> century (his Loeb translation of course was 1912-13) and seen for example
> in passages (*long* ones) in the ANF (e.g., in Clement of Alexandria's
> STromateis). THe idea was that if a text was highly charged in terms of
> sexual content, it was to be rendered into Latin to prevent offence but to
> allow scholars access to it. (In this case, I believe, Lake didn't
> translate into Latin but used the surviving Latin version; the editors'
> later English translation, I might add, is none too good -- completely
> misses the point about the rabbit!)
>
This is the case with the Schaff ed. of Clement's Paedagogus, Book II Chapter X.
Does anyone know of an English translation of that Chapter?
Thanks!
JM
--Rev. John M. Moe St. John's Lutheran Church, Rich Valley http://www.state.net/sjrv/
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