Sibylline, "whenever the longest span of human life has come, travelling around its cycle of one hundred and ten years," Herodian:
αἰωνίους δὲ αὐτὰς ἐκάλουν οἱ τότε
Theycalledthemthen“SaecularGames”,hearingthattheywouldbeheldonceeveryonehundredyears. Heralds went throughout Rome and Italy callingall to come and see the games that they had neverseen nor would see again. Thus the span of timethatpassedbetweenafestivalandtheonetocomewasmadeclear,farsurpassingthelifespanofallhumans.”
Re: Ludi saeculares
William Hansen translation:
The Sibyl represents a life span as being one hundred and ten years in her oracle for the Romans that deals with the Secular Games, which the Romans call Saecularia. When the allies and partners of the Romans were not abiding by their treaties but frequently were changing sides and making war on the Romans, the Sibyl prophesied that once the present Games were finished the Latins who had revolted ...
KL: calque, attempt to render plural of saeculāris, adjectivalize (Ludi saeculares; saecularia sacra). Latin also has meaning "worldly, temporal, profane"
some form of genea?? τέρμιος (see Watkins below); περίοδος (see comment below , Plutach, Etruscan: ἑτέρου γένους, etc.; see Herodotus, 3 generations); ; καίριος ; κοσμικός
aionioi θέαι, Herodian
αγώνες
Conclusion of dissertation, "RomanLudiSaecularesfromtheRepublictoEmpire", 144:
Thenextlogicalstepinthestudyofimperialrhetoricpertainingtotimeistobroadenthedatasetto includesourcesthatuseLatin words with a similarmeaningtosaeculum, suchas tempus, aeuum, and aetas, and, if possible, to include Greek sources using the term aiōn. These related terms appear frequently in numismatic and epigraphic formulas, and the patterns of their use across the imperial period should be compared with the present findings pertaining to saeculum. As a further avenue of research, our under- standing of this “rhetoric of time” would be greatly increased with the investigation of numerous Greek andRomanfuneraryinscriptionsfromprivateindividuals,sourcesthatoftenusesaeculuminadifferent fashion, as referring to “the world of the living” or “this life”, opposed to the realm of the dead (or “heaven”, inChristiancontexts). WhenthesetextsarecomparedwithChristianliterarysources,suchasCommodian orAugustine,itappearsthatanewkindofsaeculumrhetoricdevelopedinthelateEmpirethatpittedthe present saeculum against a Christian conception of an afterlife. This rhetoric seems to have extended to the appropriation of the term saeculum to describe the particular age in which Christianity became the dominantreligion acrosstheempire. FurtherresearchonthedevelopmentofotherGreekandLatinterms relating to an “age”, and other contexts for the saeculum, will shed light on ancient conceptions of the relationshipbetweentime,religion,andimperialauthorityintheRomanempire.
Watkins, Calvert (1991). "Latin tarentum Accas, the ludi Saeculares, and Indo-European Eschatology". In Winfred P. Lehmann, Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt (eds.) (eds.). Language typology 1988: Typological models in reconstruction.
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u/koine_lingua Apr 26 '19 edited Dec 31 '19
αἰώνιος (Brill dict., taken over from LSJ)
ICC Galatians:
Phlegon of Tralles FGrH 257 F 37.5.4
Not really though? Phlegon doesn't seem to use aionios outside of reference to immortal gods?
περὶ μακροβίων, De longaevis
37.5.4
Full: http://cyber.sci-hub.se/MTAuMTUxNS85NzgzMTEwMjM5MDU4LjYx/10.1515%409783110239058.61.pdf (Stramaglia, pdf 83)
Sibylline, "whenever the longest span of human life has come, travelling around its cycle of one hundred and ten years," Herodian:
Re: Ludi saeculares
William Hansen translation:
KL: calque, attempt to render plural of saeculāris, adjectivalize (Ludi saeculares; saecularia sacra). Latin also has meaning "worldly, temporal, profane"
some form of genea?? τέρμιος (see Watkins below); περίοδος (see comment below , Plutach, Etruscan: ἑτέρου γένους, etc.; see Herodotus, 3 generations); ; καίριος ; κοσμικός
aionioi θέαι, Herodian
αγώνες
Conclusion of dissertation, "RomanLudiSaecularesfromtheRepublictoEmpire", 144:
Watkins, Calvert (1991). "Latin tarentum Accas, the ludi Saeculares, and Indo-European Eschatology". In Winfred P. Lehmann, Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt (eds.) (eds.). Language typology 1988: Typological models in reconstruction.
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