Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 15.1.8
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Context
Isidore, born to an aristocratic family in Cartagena, was an
influential scholar and archbishop of Seville at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Beyond his
bold ecclesiastical leadership in the old Roman province and his program to integrate
the Spanish Kingdom of the Arian Visigoths, he wrote an encyclopedia in 20 volumes.
Isidore compiled knowledge in all fields based on research across an extensive range of
classical writings, which he often quoted or paraphrased. In this passage from the book
on buildings and fields (de aedificiis et agris), Isidore discusses the refounding of
Strato’s Tower as Caesarea.
Text
Dor urbs fuit quondam potentissima; et versa vice Stratonis turris,
postea ab Herode, rege Iudaeae, in honorem Caesaris Augusti
Caesarea nuncupata. In qua Corneli domum Christi vidit
Ecclesia, et Philippi aediculas, et cubiculum quattuor virginum prophetarum.1
Textual Note
Ed. Lindsay 1911Translation
The city of Dor was once very powerful; it was opposite Strato’s
Tower, which was later named Caesarea by Herod, king of Judaea,
in honor of Caesar Augustus. There the Church of Christ saw the home of Cornelius, the
house of Philip, and the room of the four virgin prophets.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 Isidore of Seville, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum. Tomus I, Libri I-X, ed. W. M. Lindsay, vol. 1, 2 vols., Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911), bk: 15, ch: 1.18.
Additional Bibliography
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae Libri I-X: Machine Readable Text, ed. W.M. Lindsay (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2006)
- Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, trans. Stephen A Barney et al. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
How to Cite This Entry
Joseph L. Rife, “Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 15.1.8,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 14, 2021, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/149.
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