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Headword: *)afrikano/s
Adler number: alpha,4647
Translated headword: Africanus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Called Sectus,[1] a philosopher, a Libyan,[2] he wrote the Kestoi ["Charmed Girdles"] in 24 books.[3] They are physical treatises, of a sort, containing spells from the words and the charms and certain written characters and other operations. It was against him that Origen wrote, having formulated an objection about the Book of Susannah, the one [inserted] into the [Book of] Daniel.[4]
Greek Original:
*)afrikano/s, o( *se/ktos xrhmati/sas, filo/sofos, *li/bus, o( tou\s *kestou\s gegrafw\s e)n bibli/ois kd#. ei)si\ de\ oi(onei\ fusika\, e)/xonta e)k lo/gwn te kai\ e)paoidw=n kai\ graptw=n tinwn xarakth/rwn i)a/seis te kai\ a)lloi/wn e)nergeiw=n. kata\ tou/tou e)/grayen *)wrige/nhs e)/nstasin poihsa/menos peri\ tou= th=s *swsa/nnhs bibli/ou, tou= ei)s to\n *danih/l.
Notes:
First half of C3 CE. OCD(4) p.755, under 'Iulius Africanus, Sextus'.
[1] That is, Sextus.
[2] Actually from Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem).
[3] cf. under kappa 1428.
[4] cf. sigma 856. But actually the objection (involving the genealogy of Jesus) was made by Africanus himself in a letter to Origen (for whom see omega 182).
Keywords: biography; Christianity; geography; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 June 2001@22:03:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added bibliography and keywords) on 8 June 2001@03:46:42.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 23 March 2006@07:57:18.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks) on 7 May 2012@08:59:47.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 31 July 2014@04:51:42.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 26 May 2016@06:31:40.

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