Νοθεύει
bastardizes, adulterates
Translated by Catharine Roth24 Apr 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] deceives, alters.1
See a most/very accurate martyr-story about the bastardization of the sacred scriptures in the paraphrase of the blessed Logothete on the martyrdom of Saint Lucian. For he says as follows: "This holy Lucian saw that the holy books had incorporated much counterfeit [material], because time had corrupted much of their content, and there had been continuous changes in them from one thing to another, and on account of certain worthless men, who had been in the forefront of Hellenism and who tried to pervert their meaning and sow in them much that was illegitimate. So he re-edited the books, taking his cues from the Hebrew language, which he had learned quite well, as he put much effort into the correction of the holy books."2
See a most/very accurate martyr-story about the bastardization of the sacred scriptures in the paraphrase of the blessed Logothete on the martyrdom of Saint Lucian. For he says as follows: "This holy Lucian saw that the holy books had incorporated much counterfeit [material], because time had corrupted much of their content, and there had been continuous changes in them from one thing to another, and on account of certain worthless men, who had been in the forefront of Hellenism and who tried to pervert their meaning and sow in them much that was illegitimate. So he re-edited the books, taking his cues from the Hebrew language, which he had learned quite well, as he put much effort into the correction of the holy books."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νοθεύει· ἀπατᾷ, ἀπαλλοτριοῖ. ζήτει μαρτυρίαν ἀκριβεστάτην τῆς νοθεύσεως τῶν θείων γραφῶν ἐν τῇ τοῦ μακαρίτου Λογοθέτου μεταφράσει τῇ εἰς τὸ μαρτύριον τοῦ ἁγίου Λουκιανοῦ· φησὶ γὰρ οὑτωσί· ὁ θεῖος τοίνυν οὗτος Λουκιανὸς καὶ τὰς ἱερὰς βίβλους ἰδὼν πολὺ τὸ νόθον εἰσδεξαμένας, τοῦ τε χρόνου λυμηναμένου πολλὰ τῶν ἐν αὐταῖς καὶ τῆς συνεχοῦς ἀφ' ἑτέρων εἰς ἕτερα μεταθέσεως, καὶ μέντοι καί τινων ἀνθρώπων πονηροτάτων, οἳ τοῦ Ἑλληνισμοῦ προεστήκεσαν, παρατρέψαι τὸν ἐν αὐταῖς νοῦν πειρασαμένων καὶ πολὺ τὸ κίβδηλον ἐν ταύταις σπειράντων, αὐτὸς ἁπάσας ἀναλαβὼν ἐκ τῆς Ἑβραΐδος ἀνενεώσατο γλώττης, ἣν καὶ αὐτὴν ἠκριβωκὼς ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἦν, πόνον τῇ ἐπανορθώσει πλεῖστον εἰσενεγκάμενος.
Betacode
*noqeu/ei: a)pata=|, a)pallotrioi=. zh/tei marturi/an a)kribesta/thn th=s noqeu/sews tw=n qei/wn grafw=n e)n th=| tou= makari/tou *logoqe/tou metafra/sei th=| ei)s to\ martu/rion tou= a(gi/ou *loukianou=: fhsi\ ga\r ou(twsi/: o( qei=os toi/nun ou(=tos *loukiano\s kai\ ta\s i(era\s bi/blous i)dw\n polu\ to\ no/qon ei)sdecame/nas, tou= te xro/nou lumhname/nou polla\ tw=n e)n au)tai=s kai\ th=s sunexou=s a)f' e(te/rwn ei)s e(/tera metaqe/sews, kai\ me/ntoi kai/ tinwn a)nqrw/pwn ponhrota/twn, oi(\ tou= *(ellhnismou= proesth/kesan, paratre/yai to\n e)n au)tai=s nou=n peirasame/nwn kai\ polu\ to\ ki/bdhlon e)n tau/tais speira/ntwn, au)to\s a(pa/sas a)nalabw\n e)k th=s *(ebrai/+dos a)nenew/sato glw/tths, h(\n kai\ au)th\n h)kribwkw\s e)s ta\ ma/lista h)=n, po/non th=| e)panorqw/sei plei=ston ei)senegka/menos.
Notes (2)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius nu235 Theodoridis, where the editor suggests that the headword -- third person singular, present indicative active, of the verb
noqeu/w -- might be quoted from Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations 37.8 (PG 36.292b). ↩ - 2Symeon Metaphrastes, PG 114.401a; also in the Bidez-Winkelmann edition of Philostorgius, p. 187. Quoted already (with slight differences) at lambda 685. ↩
Linked from4 entries
- α2549Ἀνόθευτονunbastardized[Meaning] genuine, not artificial; pure.
- λ685ΛουκιανὸςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian[Lucian] the martyr; this man was from Samosata in Syria, born in the upper class. In his youth he met a certain man called Makarios, who lived in Edessa and gave explanatory lectures on the sacred books, and in a short…
- ν448Νοθείαbastardy[Meaning] covert birth, [or] prostitution. Bastard's inheritance is the name for the [sc. belongings] that bastards inherit through their fathers; it was up to a thousand drachmas. So Lysias and Isaeus and Aristophanes…
- ν449Νόθοςbastard[Meaning] a stranger/foreigner. Being legitimate [is] a divine sort of thing in the production of offspring among human beings. For this reason he who does not have this [is called] no/qos, as being deprived of…
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Revision history5 revisions · last 16 Jun 2013
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- tweaked tr — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth