At Isidorus of Pelusium, Ep. II 135, PG LXXVIII, col. 577, manuscripts and editions offer the following text: Ὅταν ... τις ... χρήματα ..., μᾶλλον δὲ ἁμαρτήματα, συνάγῃ ὡς ὁ κάνθαρος τὴν κάνθαρον. This can be translated as: «when ... someone ... collects riches, or rather I should say sins, like the dung-beetle (collects) the dung-beetle». The sentence does not make sense: dung-beetles do not collect other dung-beetles. The word κάνθαρον is therefore corrupted (A. Gargiulo). It substituted a word that meant «dung»: either κόπρον (F. Della Rossa) or ὄνθον (L. Battezzato).
Isidoro di Pelusio, Ep. II 135, PG LXXVIII, col. 577: una nota testuale
Luigi Battezzato;Federico Della Rossa;
2023-01-01
Abstract
At Isidorus of Pelusium, Ep. II 135, PG LXXVIII, col. 577, manuscripts and editions offer the following text: Ὅταν ... τις ... χρήματα ..., μᾶλλον δὲ ἁμαρτήματα, συνάγῃ ὡς ὁ κάνθαρος τὴν κάνθαρον. This can be translated as: «when ... someone ... collects riches, or rather I should say sins, like the dung-beetle (collects) the dung-beetle». The sentence does not make sense: dung-beetles do not collect other dung-beetles. The word κάνθαρον is therefore corrupted (A. Gargiulo). It substituted a word that meant «dung»: either κόπρον (F. Della Rossa) or ὄνθον (L. Battezzato).
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