Thursday, January 8, 2026

Discussion of the perfect participle form of χαριτοω in the work of Hephaestion Thebanus (4th century A.D.)

  

Hephaestion (sec. IV d.Hr.), autorul unui tratat de astrologie (intitulat Apotelesmatica) , scrie următorul text: „Cel care se va naşte în a treia zonă va fi plin de farmec (εσται κεχαριτωμενος) şi bine educat, va avea mulţi prieteni şi va fi senzual (τρυφητης)." (Emanuel Conţac, Dilemele fidelităţii: condiţionări culturale şi teologice în traducerea Bibliei [Cluh-Napoca, Romania: Logos, 2011], 204)

 

Hephaestion (4th century AD), author of an astrology treatise (entitled Apotelesmatica), writes the following text: "He who is born in the third zone will be charming (εσται κεχαριτωμενος) and well-educated, will have many friends and will be sensual (τρυφητης)."

 

 


 

 

Source: Hephaestion Thebanus, Apotelesmatica, ed. David Pingree, 2 vols. (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 294; Leipzig: BSB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1973), 1:30

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