Outcomes come by reason, law, fate, or chance
Proem. The issues of affairs — births and destructions, alterations and healings — come by reason, or by law, or by fate, or by chance. It is good to know each of these, gathering from them all a varied profit that bears fruit: a cure for suffering, or a hidden history, or the beauty of speech. These things, in what has gone before and in what follows, have been achieved, as I think, according to my own modest measure.
Greek
<Προοίμιον> Κατὰ λόγον ἢ νόμον ἢ εἱμαρμένην ἢ τύχην αἱ τῶν πραγμάτων ἐκβάσεις, ἐπιγοναὶ καὶ φθοραί, ἀλλοιώσεις καὶ ἰάματ<α>· ὧν ἕκαστον καλὸν εἰδέναι, συναγαγόντας ἐκ πάντων ὠφέλειαν ποικίλην καρπουμένην, θεραπείαν παθῶν ἢ ἱστορίαν ἀπόρρητον ἢ λόγου κάλλος· ἅπερ ἔν τε τοῖς φθάνουσι καὶ τοῖς ἑπομένοις, ὥς γε οἶμαι, κατὰ τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ μέτριον κατώρθωται.
About this text
Julius Africanus, Cesti (Embroidered Girdles): a miscellany of history, science, and craft, in the surviving fragments — books 7, 2, and 3 in full, with parts of books 4, 8, 9, and 13, and the colophon of Cestus 18. The older English translates his letters only. The book-2 table of contents and a book-7 appendix are not in this volume.
New English from locked PG 10 / Khazarzar Greek of the Cesti fragmenta through 9.5. Earlier lemma-led scaffold English was discarded. Book-2 pinax and book-7 appendix held. This lock is exhausted.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 10 Cesti fragmenta (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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