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Didn't Boethius translate Aristotle?  Or was his work a looser
transmission of Aristotle's ideas?

John Peradotto wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terrence Lockyer" <lockyert@mweb.co.za>
> To: "Classics List" <classics@u.washington.edu>
> Cc: <asiebengartner@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:16 PM
> Subject: Latin translations of Greek texts
>
> > Andrew Siebengartner wrote
> >
> > : I am currently trying to compile a list of Latin
> > : passages/texts (preferably prose) where an
> > : attempt has been made to directly translate a
> > : Greek passage/text.
> >
> > Not prose, but some suggestions:
> >
> > Catullus 51 (free translation of Sappho fr. 31)
> >
> > Cicero (translation of Aratos' *Phainomena*)
> >
> > Germanicus (translation of Aratos' *Phainomena*)
> >
> > P. Terentius Varro Atacinus (translation of Apollonios Rhodios,
> > *Argonautika*;  only a few brief fragments extant:  these may be found in
> E.
> > C. Courtney (ed.), The Fragmentary Latin Poets (Oxford : Clarendon Press
> > 1993), pp. 235-53 [these are the pages for Varro - not all the fragments
> are
> > from his *Argonautae*])
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> >
> > Terrence Lockyer
> > Johannesburg, South Africa
> >
> >
>
> Cicero, de finibus 5.18 (translation of Sirens' song from Od. 12.184ff.
>
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