Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 5.1.75

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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 founding of Caesarea by Herod.

Text

Caesaream Mauretaniae oppidum Iuba rex Maurorum in honorem Caesaris Augusti condidit, quam ex eius nomine Caesaream appellavit; sicut Herodes aliam Caesaream in Palaestina, quae nunc urbs est clarissima.1

Textual Note

Ed. Lindsay 1911

Translation

Juba, king of the Moors, founded Caesarea, a town in Mauretania, in honor of Caesar Augustus, and called it Caesarea from his name, just as Herod (did in the case of) another Caesarea, in Palestine, which is now a most famous city.

Translation Note

Trans. J. L. Rife

Works 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: 5, ch: 1.75.

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)

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How to Cite This Entry

Joseph L. Rife, “Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 5.1.75,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/261.

Bibliography:

Joseph L. Rife, “Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 5.1.75.” In Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, edited by Joseph L. Rife., edited by Joseph L. Rife. Caesarea City and Port Exploration Project, 2022. Entry published October 19, 2022. https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/261.

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