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The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A.

  • Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum
Date:
1901
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Credit: The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Really the question all along is not of castrated persons at all, and cannot be, if the sense of the whole passage is taken into account; for these (castrated persons) are specially and separately forbidden access to the Temple in the next sentence, —a fact which nothing but the introduction into the text of the conjunction yde (for) by Mangey, (following a MS. it is true), has obscured. The words as they stand are @Aad as [yag] xat anoxsxou- MEVOUE TH YEVYNTIXE EAabveı, (he expells all eunuchs, those with strangled testicles, and those with amput- ated). So if the men-women who suffered from the votoosg InAsıa were actual eunuchs, this would indeed be a Pleonasmus vanus el ineptus (silly and idle pleonasm). Siark has evidently been led to maintain the opinion he does, and to blame Mangey’s emendation, which is in any case justified, by a mistake as to the construction of the sentence. Stark construed votdov avdgoytvwyr (disease of men- women), whereas the construction requires: 77» EQXNV ROLOGMEVOG End GVA QOYEVOY, TOY VOGOUYT WY thy Ynrzıav (&AndH) v000v (beginning with men- women,—those that were sick of the feminine— true—disease), the latter words being simply in apposition to avd goytver. § 10. We now proceed to consider the passages from the historian Herodzan (170— 240 A.D.). He relates ! ı Herodian, Historiarum Libri Octo, edit, Zh. Guil. Irmisch. Leipzig 1780. 8vo., Vol. II. Bk. IV. Chi: 1212 eis tobtoy ony, wg undE OTOATLOTL“OY, unde yevvetor, Onwoota mohhcinıs cme one te, nal wéyors al ‚yeäs PAaopnulag Ensi yoo TROVED- udror nal duaren Ehevdegio LODWEVOY, nal ToL adie nal Cer EGQUILEDE TOY edeouccrary nal norav uvo- arröusvor, Ols, WS oTEaTIW- TLHOS m, 0 0 Avrovivog Eyaugs, Auwddıov n tive &hımv od ijra dupızoduevon COTEL- otépav, Eis K&vavdglay
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