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The Anonymous Translation of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione (Translatio Vetus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Richard J. Durling
Richard J. Durling*
Affiliation:
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Pharmacie, Universität Kiel
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Extract

The editor of the Translatio Vetus, Joanna Judycka, remarks of the anonymous translator that he knew his métier. Indeed, the translation, apart from some minor omissions, is extremely competent. Some of its various features mentioned by Dr. Judycka are, in fact, common to many medieval translations from the Greek into Latin; for example, the confusion of the present and future, the rendering of ἄν with the optative by utique with the future indicative, and the handling of the all-pervasive articular infinitive (so common and important in scientific prose). Nor are the discrepancies in number and degree characteristic of any one author or school. Only a detailed analysis of the translator's Sprachgebrauch, such as L. Minio-Paluello contemplated before his death, can reveal the identity of the translator.

Type
Miscellany
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Traditio , Volume 49 , 1994 , pp. 320 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by Fordham University 

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