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Cicero's pro Sexto Roscio and Cyprian

Adkin, Neil

Cipriano, traducciones
Gil Tamayo, Juan Antonio

The recent Spanish translation of Cyprian’s complete works by Juan Antonio Gil-Tamayo obviously has a problem with the passage in Letter 39 describing the persecution-induced scars that qualify the confessor Celerinus for the clergy . The Cyprianic passage in question reads thus: lucent in corpore glorioso clara vulnerum signa, eminent et apparent in nervis hominis ac membris longa tabe consumptis expressa vestigia (Epist. 39, 2, 3). Here eminent et apparent… expressa vestigia is rendered by Gil-Tamayo as “se advierten y sobresalen las señales” . Significantly Gil-Tamayo has inverted the order of the verbs (eminent et apparent), while omitting expressa altogether. It is noteworthy that a similar inversion marks the recent Italian translation by Maria Vincelli (“sono visibili ed evidenti”), where the strong

https://doi.org/10.36576/summa.48541

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