Aëtiana V: An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts, Part 4. English Translation, Bibliography, Indices

266 Pages·2020·1.176 MB·English

by  Mansfeld, Jaap, Runia, David T. (eds.)

PART 4
AëtianaV
Part4
Philosophia Antiqua
A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy
EditorialBoard
F.A.J.deHaas(Leiden)
K.A.Algra(Utrecht)
J.Mansfeld(Utrecht)
C.J.Rowe(Durham)
D.T.Runia(Melbourne)
Ch.Wildberg(Princeton)
PreviousEditors
J.H.Waszink†
W.J.Verdenius†
J.C.M.VanWinden†
volume 153/4
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Aëtiana V
AnEditionof theReconstructedTextof thePlacita with
aCommentaryandaCollectionof RelatedTexts
part 4
EnglishTranslation
Bibliography
Indices
Editedby
JaapMansfeld
DavidT.Runia
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Contents
Part 1
Preface ix
SiglaandAbbreviations xii
GeneralIntroduction 1
Book 1 ThePrinciplesofNature:TextandCommentary 101
Part 2
SiglaandAbbreviations ix
User’sGuidetotheEditionandCommentary 719
Book 2 Cosmology:TextandCommentary 727
Book 3 MeteorologyandtheEarth:TextandCommentary 1129
Part 3
SiglaandAbbreviations ix
User’sGuidetotheEditionandCommentary 1347
Book 4 Psychology:TextandCommentary 1355
Book 5 Physiology:TextandCommentary 1739
Part 4
EnglishTranslationofthePlacita 2059
User’sGuidetotheEnglishTranslation 2061
Book 1 ThePrinciplesofNature 2063
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Book 2 Cosmology 2089
Book 3 MeteorologyandtheEarth 2108
Book 4 Psychology 2120
Book 5 Physiology 2137
Appendix:ListofChapterHeadingsintheTranslationofQusṭāibn
Lūqā 2153
Bibliography 2158
IndexofPrimaryandSecondaryWitnesses 2283
IndexofName-LabelsandOtherNames 2291
IndexofFragmentCollectionsandExtantSources 2296
IndexofAncientandModernNames 2309
AetiusPlacita
EnglishTranslation
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User’s Guide to the EnglishTranslation
Theaimof thisuser’sguideistoassistthereaderwhowishestoconsultand
make use of the English translation of the Placita that we have prepared. It
essentiallyrepeatswhatwassaidinsection6.6oftheGeneralIntroduction.
AsweexplainedintheGeneralIntroduction,section6.1,itwasnotpossible
onpracticalgroundstoplacethetranslationbesidetheGreektextoftheedi-
tion.WedecidedtoplaceitinVolumeFour,whichhastwoadvantages,(1)that
itcanbecollectedtogether,and(2)thatitcanbeconsultedwhilethetextand
itsapparatusesarebeingstudied.
ThetranslationaimstogiveanaccuratepictureoftheoriginalGreek.Itthus
tendstowardstheliteralside,whiletryingtoavoidveeringtowardslanguage
thatisartificialorunidiomatic.Itisimportantthatusersofthetranslationnote
thefollowingconventionsandpractices:
(1)WordsandphrasesthathavetobesuppliedintheGreek,whentranslated,
areplacedinparentheses.
(2)Name-labelsarerenderedintheusualLatinateformsofthenames.For
collectivenames,e.g.schoolsandgroups,weaimatauniformtranslation.A
footnote will be added when this is not possible. Note the following transla-
tionsofstandardGreekphrases:
οἱἀπότινος thesuccessorsofX
τιςκαὶοἱἀπ᾽αὐτοῦ Xandhissuccessors
οἱπερίτινα Xandhisfollowers.
Formultiplename-labelswefollowtheGreekandpreserveallcasesof asun-
deta,i.e.notusingcommasandonlytranslatingconjunctionswhenpresentin
theoriginal.ThisofcourseisquiteunnaturalinEnglish,buthelpfullyconveys
thetelegramstyleofthePlacita.
(3)Conjecturaladditionstothetransmittedtext,whentranslated,areplaced
inanglebrackets(justlikeinthetextitself).Bracesarealsotakenoverfromthe
text,indicatingthatwesuspectthatthetextisnotauthenticoruncertain.An
obelus(†)indicatesacruxinthetext,threeasterisksalacuna.
(4)Althoughweaimasfaraspossibletoachieveconsistentoneforoneren-
derings of Greek terms in English, this is not always possible because of the
polyvalentmeaningsofcertainwordsinbothlanguages.Occasionallyweadd
anasteriskedfootnotetoexplainaparticularcase.
(5) On some occasions it is best to use a transliterated equivalent of the
Greek term. In such cases an English rendering of the term is added in par-
entheses,unlessthisisnotneeded,asinthecaseofthetermpneuma.
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