[tied] Re: Oltak-original version

From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 20911
Date: 2003-04-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> --- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
> wrote:
> > > I am sorry, but it's hard to be always in hurry
> > (We have constant
> > > lack of electricity). It was Naturalis Historiae,
> > VII, 48(49). I
> > am
> > > trying to translate from one Albanian collection
> > of ancient
> > > authors: "According to Alexander Corneli, one
> > called Dandon from
> > > Illyria, lived 500 years". ("Ilirët dhe Iliria te
> > autorët antikë",
> > > Rilindja, Prishtina, 1979, po. 196.)
> > > > Konushevci
> > And, at least, original version:
> > 155 Ephorus Arcadum reges tricenis annis, Alexander
> > Cornelius
> > Dandonem quendam in Illyrico D vixisse, Xenophon in
> > periplo
> > Lutmiorum insulae regem DC atque, ut parce mentitus,
> > filium eius
> > DCCC. quae omnia inscitia temporum acciderunt. annum
> > enim alii
> > aestate determinabant et alterum hieme, alii
> > quadripertitis
> > temporibus, sicut Arcades, quorum anni trimenstres
> > fuere, quidam
> > lunae scenio, ut Aegyptii. itaque apud eos et
> > singula milia annorum
> > vixisse produntur.
>
> *****GK: Thanks for the correction and the Latin
> version. You beat me by two minutes. I was about to
> post the on-line excerpt from Pliny. So the name is
> "Dando".*****
******
And it looks like Pliny got it from Valerius Maximus rather than
from Cornelius Alexander directly.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/valmax8.html
Liber VIII 8.13.ext.7
Alexander uero in eo uolumine, quod de Illyrico tractu conposuit,
adfirmat Dandonem quendam ad quingentesimum usque annum nulla ex
parte senescentem processisse. sed multo liberalius Xenophon, cuius
per§plouw legitur: insulae enim Latmiorum regem octingentis uitae
annis donauit. ac ne pater eius parum benigne acceptus uideretur, ei
quoque sescentos adsignauit annos.
Wouldn't the emendatores manuscriptorum have a fine time with
the internet, figuring out things like "per§plouw"
Dan