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Swords & Sorcery, The Midas Adventure Concept No 1, adventure for Spectrum 48K by Mike Simpson with Roger Pearse box art (Personal Software Services, 1985)

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Now Available: Origen Of Alexandria: Exegetical Works on Ezekiel

Now Available: Origen Of Alexandria: Exegetical Works on Ezekiel

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This morning I received an email with exciting news. Roger Pearse now has a book on the translation of Origen’s exegesis of Ezekiel. Not only do I love the book of Ezekiel but also the Alexandrian school. The work includes the Greek fragments of 14 homilies by Origen and is 742 pages long. It can be purchased in paperback or hardcover.

Here’s the description:

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One item that has hung around on my PC for ages now is Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans. A translation actually exists of this obscure item, published by an Oxford Movement person in the 1840′s, in a journal, and then forgotten. I did scan it in the then-new Finereader 11 back in early 2012; but a bug in the software promptly erased a whole load of formatting. The original editor had used italics instead of quotes, where bits of the bible were involved, which means there are a lot of them. I re-added the italics, laboriously, not realising why it had disappeared; and lo! it vanished again. After trudging through 80 pages, twice, adding italics all over each page, my will to live disappeared and I left it to one side. But I have got stuck into this again. This time I add italics to a page, and then copy the page into Word before I do anything else. Slowly, slowly, I am building up the text. Another 25 pages to go. I hope to get it done this week.

How all of us feel who transcribe texts for general use. Thanks Roger.

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A quotation from Thales?

August 28th, 2013 by Roger Pearse

A correspondent writes:

I have seen this statement all over the web referring to an alleged quote of Thales:

Megiston topos: hapanta gar chorei (Μέγιστον τόπος• άπαντα γαρ χωρεί) “Space is the greatest thing, as it contains all things”

However, I have never seen a reference to an ancient text.  Is this a web myth?

The reference is to Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the philosophers, book 1, chapter 35:

Φέρεται δὲ καὶ ἀποφθέγματα αὐτοῦ τάδε·

πρεσβύτατον τῶν ὄντων θεός· ἀγένητον γάρ. κάλλιστον κόσμος· ποίημα γὰρ θεοῦ. μέγιστον τόπος· ἅπαντα γὰρ χωρεῖ. τάχιστον νοῦς· διὰ παντὸς γὰρ τρέχει. ἰσχυρότατον ἀνάγκη· κρατεῖ γὰρ πάντων. σοφώτατον χρόνος· ἀνευρίσκει γὰρ πάντα.

Here are certain apothegms attributed to him:

Of all things that are, the most ancient is God, for he is uncreated. The most beautiful is the universe, for it is God’s workmanship. The greatest is space, for it holds all things. The swiftest is mind, for it speeds everywhere. The strongest, necessity, for it masters all. The wisest, time, for it brings everything to light