Re: Canticles - rephrase

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 19 1998 - 09:41:25 EST


At 8:07 PM -0600 12/18/98, wross wrote:
>{Bill}
>So, are you saying that we can't be certain of how to translate the word
>LEGONTWN as SINGING, or SAYING
>
>or whether, in addition to that recorded in the text, they might
>have also been singing?
>
>Or, the means that they used to lay out the information may have been song?

Would you perhaps prefer "using the words (LOGOI)"? I think that's what
LEGW really means. I think Aristotle draws a distinction between prose and
poetry by calling the latter LOGOS EMMETROS or something like that. I think
the problem here is wanting the Greek to make the same distinction which
English makes clearly.

Carl W. Conrad
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