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Document Details : Title: Prochorus Cydones's Partial Translation of Augustine's Enchiridion Subtitle: An Annotated editio princeps Author(s): ZALOUMIS, Angelos Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 76 Issue: 1 Date: 2026 Pages: 153-208 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.76.1.3295615 Abstract : This article offers an editio princeps of Prochorus Cydones’s partially preserved Greek translation of Augustine’s Enchiridion ad Laurentium de fide, spe et caritate, extant in cod. Vaticanus gr. 604. The edition includes a critical apparatus, an apparatus of sources, and a comparative apparatus tracking textual variants and Latin-Greek correspondences. The relevant extant folios (171 and 174) are most likely autograph. Prochorus’s Latin exemplar differs from Evans’s critical edition in several instances, revealing a (partial) late manuscript tradition not attested elsewhere. The translation itself adheres closely to the Latin syntax but is adjusted to produce a more elegant and natural Greek text, showing both stylistic care and occasional Latinisms. Several additions and transformations ‒ textual, syntactic, and lexical ‒ are explored, mainly stemming from textual variants. Biblical citations are occasionally rendered from memory or aligned with the Greek New Testament, reflecting noteworthy interpretive choices. Based on thematic overlaps with Demetrius Cydones’s Apologia II, the translation is plausibly dated to the early 1360s. Its theological focus on sincerity, truth, and the compatibility of faith and reason is in line with the anti-Palamite agenda of the Cydones brothers. An appendix provides a full list of passages from Enchiridion quoted in Greek translations of Latin works, primarily drawn from Thomistic texts translated by Prochorus and his brother Demetrius. |
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