Greek · AI translation
Old Testament, Epistula Jeremiae English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth , Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
AI translation. Translated by Claude (Anthropic) from the original beside it, then checked against the original by a second AI (Codex, from OpenAI); objections that held up were corrected. No specialist has reviewed it. Read it as a plain working version, not an authoritative translation. How these were made 69.1 Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν σικυηράτῳ προβασκάνιον οὐδὲν φυλάσσον, οὕτως οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν εἰσὶν ξύλινοι καὶ περίχρυσοι καὶ περιάργυροι.
For as a scarecrow in a cucumber field guards nothing, so are their gods, wooden and overlaid with gold and overlaid with silver.
Translator's note. 'Scarecrow' renders προβασκάνιον, literally a charm against the evil eye.
The whole original: Perseus's Scaife Viewer .
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's tlg0527.tlg052.1st1K-grc1, from Open Greek and Latin's First1KGreek (CC BY-SA 4.0), one English line for each line of the original. Only some passages are translated so far: those that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and the demons-and-angels study cite.
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This translation is cts_greekLit_tlg0527.tlg052.json in the downloadable collection, which also records each objection the review raised and what was done about it.
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