Epictetus (Diss., II, 20, 19)translation

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 19 14:48:37 EST 1999




>From: Mary L B Pendergraft 

>>KAI hOI APOKOPTOMENOI TAS GE PROQUMIAS TAS TWN ANDRWN APOKOYASQAI OU 
>>DUNANTAI

>Here's an old translation of T. W. Higginson:  "But even those who have
>their organs cut off cannot rid themselves of man's desires..."
>That is, KAI hOI APOKOPTOMENOI  "even the cut-off  people"  In this 
context
>it surely is a reference to castration.
>APOKOYASQAI OU DUNANTAI  "are not able to cut off"
>TAS GE PROQUMIAS TAS TWN ANDRWN  "the desires of men"  This last 
section is
>an example of a use of the article that is less common in koine, 
whereby
>repeating the article shows that the words that follow (here, the
>possessive genitive) are attributes of its noun.

Amazing resonance to my [long ago] Attic studies...  The particle GE, as 
I am recalling, is a stressive, intensifying PROQUMIAS, and I have not 
seen it so far in the NT.

A more literal try might be:

"Even those castrated are not [being] able to castrate the very [real] 
desires of men."

George  


George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA


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