Dr. Aiken's Unfinished Corner (Philosophy of Religion)

021116_A distant memory of another all-saints day in a different age of the world, from a collegial challenge to verify a translation of a stele inscription @ http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/1556?hs=152-162, which produced this translation:

Most excellent of Phrygians, born in spacious Athens,/

Of a great axe handler, of Manne, it is fine, the monument that is here:/

“And, by Zeus, I have not seen, myself excepted, a more able woodcutter. Now/

Death has carried him off in [the] war.

Φρυγῶν ὃς ἄριστος ἐγένατ’ ἐν εὐ<ρ>υχόροισιν Ἀθήνα<ι>ς, /

Μάννης Ὀρύμαιος, ὁ͂ μνῆμα τόδ’ ἐστὶ καλὸν./'καὶ μὰ Δί’ οὐκ εἶδον
ἐμαυτο͂  ἀμείνω ὑλοτόμον.' vv /ἐν τῶι πολέμ<ω>ι ἀπέθανεν

	Φρυγῶν ὃς ἄριστος ἐγένατ’ ἐ-
	ν εὐ<ρ>υχόροισιν Ἀθήνα<ι>ς, / Μάν-
	νης Ὀρύμαιος, ὁ͂ μνῆμα τόδ’ ἐσ-
	τὶ καλὸν. / "καὶ μὰ Δί’ οὐκ εἶδον
5	ἐμαυτο͂ ἀμείνω ὑλοτόμον." vv /
	ἐν τῶι πολέμ<ω>ι ἀπέθανεν.

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