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,5ov jiic , ç ôsiwaiixo; imfjpxe tUJ.LicLÇ Tebv PocatXucciriv eTicsaupciiv.
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Translation
Women ruled that Aithiopia (referred to in the Acts), and (this) Candace was
also one in their line of succession; and the eunuch was her keeper of the royal
treasuries. It should be known that Candace is what the Aithiopians call every
mother of a king since the Aithiopians do not refer to the father, but these are
traditionally regarded as sons of the sun. The mother of each king they call
Candace.234
Comments
See 85 and 105, with Comments. For Act. Apost. 8.27 see FHN III, 194.
107 On Aithiopian kingship. 3rd cent. BC.
Bion of Soloi in Athenaeus 13.20, 566c. FGrH 668 F2.
Source bibliography
Jacoby 1958
Kaibel 1887-90
Gulick 1961
Introduction to source
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Jacoby: Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
Dritter Teil C. Leiden.
Kaibel: Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum
libri XV. Vol. 1-3. Lipsiae.
Athenaeus: The Deipnosophists. With an English
translation by C.B. Gulick. Vol. 1-7. London-Cambridge,
MA.
Athenaeus, bom in Naucratis in Egypt and later working in Rome, lived
around AD 200. There survives by his hand a very extensive work entitled
Deipnosophistai, "The Learned Banquet". It has been characterized as "an ency-
clopedia in the form of a dinner conversation" and is a mine of information on
ancient literature, history, and culture because in their conversation the thirty
scholars who participate in the symposium quote extensively from earlier authors,
most of whose works are otherwise lost to us. The accuracy of the histori
234The explanation given here, without mention of the source, is almost identical, word for word,
with the quotation from Bion in 105. The singular "father" (rto-tk)a) for "fathers" (ircer4)a) is
probably just a transmission or printing error.
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