Φλέγων
Phlegon
Translated by Catharine Roth25 Nov 2004Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
About this Phlegon, as Philostorgius says,5 to relate fully in detail what befell with the Jews, while Phlegon and Dio mentioned [these events] briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative. Since this man does not exhibit at all prudently those who would lead to piety and other virtues, as those others do not either. Josephus, on the contrary, is like one who fears and takes care not to offend the [sc.pagan] Greeks.6
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φλέγων, Τραλλιανός, ἀπελεύθερος τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ καίσαρος, οἱ δὲ Ἀδριανοῦ φασιν· ἱστορικός. ἔγραψεν Ὀλυμπιάδας ἐν βιβλίοις ιʹ2ʹ· ἔστι δὲ μέχρι τῆς σκθʹ ὀλυμπιάδος τὰ πραχθέντα πανταχοῦ· τὰ δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίοις ηʹ· Ἔκφρασιν Σικελίας, Περὶ μακροβίων καὶ θαυμα- σίων, Περὶ τῶν παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἑορτῶν βιβλία γʹ, Περὶ τῶν ἐν Ῥώμῃ τόπων καὶ ὧν ἐπικέκληνται ὀνομάτων, Ἐπιτομὴν ὀλυμπιονικῶν ἐν βιβλίοις βʹ, καὶ ἄλλα. τούτου τοῦ Φλέγοντος, ὥς φησι Φιλοστόργιος, ὅσον τὰ κατὰ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους συμπεσόντα διὰ πλείονος ἐπεξελθεῖν τοῦ πλάτους, Φλέγοντος καὶ Δίωνος βραχέως ἐπιμνησθέντων καὶ παρενθήκην αὐτὰ τοῦ οἰκείου λόγου ποιησαμένων. ἐπεὶ τῶν γε εἰς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀρετὴν ἑλκόντων οὐδ' ὁτιοῦν οὐδ' οὗτος δείκνυται πεφροντικώς, ὅνπερ οὐδ' ἐκεῖνοι τρόπον. τοὐναντίον μὲν οὖν ὁ Ἰώσηπος καὶ δεδοικότι ἔοικε καὶ εὐλαβουμένῳ ὡς μὴ προσκρούσειεν Ἕλλησι.
Betacode
*fle/gwn, *tralliano/s, a)peleu/qeros tou= *sebastou= kai/saros, oi( de\ *)adrianou= fasin: i(storiko/s. e)/grayen *)olumpia/das e)n bibli/ois i#2#: e)/sti de\ me/xri th=s skq# o)lumpia/dos ta\ praxqe/nta pantaxou=: ta\ de\ au)ta\ e)n bibli/ois h#: *)/ekfrasin *sikeli/as, *peri\ makrobi/wn kai\ qauma- si/wn, *peri\ tw=n para\ *(rwmai/ois e(ortw=n bibli/a g#, *peri\ tw=n e)n *(rw/mh| to/pwn kai\ w(=n e)pike/klhntai o)noma/twn, *)epitomh\n o)lumpionikw=n e)n bibli/ois b#, kai\ a)/lla. tou/tou tou= *fle/gontos, w(/s fhsi *filosto/rgios, o(/son ta\ kata\ tou\s *)ioudai/ous sumpeso/nta dia\ plei/onos e)pecelqei=n tou= pla/tous, *fle/gontos kai\ *di/wnos braxe/ws e)pimnhsqe/ntwn kai\ parenqh/khn au)ta\ tou= oi)kei/ou lo/gou poihsame/nwn. e)pei\ tw=n ge ei)s eu)se/beian kai\ th\n a)/llhn a)reth\n e(lko/ntwn ou)d' o(tiou=n ou)d' ou(=tos dei/knutai pefrontikw/s, o(/nper ou)d' e)kei=noi tro/pon. tou)nanti/on me\n ou)=n o( *)iw/shpos kai\ dedoiko/ti e)/oike kai\ eu)laboume/nw| w(s mh\ proskrou/seien *(/ellhsi.
Notes (6)
- See generally K.S.Sacks in OCD(4) s.v.; FGrH 257.
- 1In the Maeander valley, Asia Minor; Barrington Atlas Map 61 grid F2; present-day Aydin. cf. under alpha 3424, chi 525, and (for other citizens of it) alpha 4113, pi 2165. ↩
- 2Modern scholarship accepts the latter (as indeed chronology demands: see next note). The Suda's 'Augustus' is perhaps an error; 'Vespasian' has been suggested instead. ↩
- 3137-140. ↩
- 4cf. Photius, Bibliotheca ch.97. ↩
- 5Besides the incomplete sentence, the name of a third historian is missing. The seventeenth-century scholar Valesius (Henri de Valois) suggested that it should be Josephus (iota 503, iota 504), who would be contrasted with Phlegon and (sc. Cassius) Dio (delta 1239). Valesius' second choice was Justus Tiberiensis (iota 450). ↩
- 6Philostorgius, Ecclesiastical History 1.1 (p. 5 Bidez-Winkelmann). This excerpt is from the prologue, where apparently Philostorgius is comparing his new genre of church history with the work of earlier historians. ↩
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Revision history10 revisions · last 7 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Added bibliography. Augmented keywords. — Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- corrected one of my x-refs; further expansion of (existing) notes — David Whitehead
- expanded note 6 — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.5 — David Whitehead
- modified tr at one point; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth