Sebastian Castellio's Bible

[Pacifica]

Yeah, that must be it — as in Ionicus a minore, an Ionic foot starting with two short or unstressed syllables, and Ionicus a maiore, being the opposite.

 

[Bitmap]

I don't think think the -a in extincta can be read as long at all in any way. It's a feminine nominative modifying omnis improbitas (it appears as extinguenda below):

I know that it can't be long grammatically ... that's why I explicitely mentioned "if you consider the a long" ...

I'm not sure how you were solving this in Cicero's wording here

I am not talking about Cicero's wording.

Maybe if we do that for the grammarian's re-wording instead, on both the -a of extincta and the other -a of deleta, then the thing fits into a ditrochee + a bacchius of sorts, after basically reducing the first -e- of deleta too (dēleō dēlētus):

— u — u | u — —
(extīnc)tā sit atque dĕlētā

A bacchius can be both u – – and – – u, so you don't need to shorten anything in deleta, nor do you need to lengthen the a. with a long a in extincta, it would simply end in – u – u / – – u

The idea of considering a nominative a long sounds rather weird though.
It's possible that by ditrochee, he has the scheme – x – u in mind with x being either –, u or u u ... in that case, you would have (ex)tincta sit atque deleta as – uu(=x) – u / – – u ... with the bacchius starting with a long syllable, as Laurentius said. If you give a ditrochee the – x / – u scheme, you would also get away with considering conservare a ditrochee.

Although I don't discount that ignoring these -m and -r may have been what he actually meant.

I thought that's what you meant, that's why I said #1 made sense that way.

That said, this requires talking about the final trochee of dactylic hexametre as a "dactyl". Not sure how good that is.

It's rather weird, that's why I couldn't make heads nor tails of #2

 

[Laurentius]

So, found it on Amazon and bought it. It turns out it is a print of the old scans, which I guess it's pretty cool in a way but I'd have preferred the print of a normal digital text, also because the letters would be much clearer. Anyway it is still readable but somehow only has the New Testament being a print of this (the pages are white though), so I'm now looking for the other half, possibly by the same editor. I wonder if I can find it...

 

[rothbard]

A bookseller in the UK has volume 3 here, and the New Testament here. The seller has been kind enough to put a few scans online for the latter. Unfortunately it's a bit expensive at GBP 375 + postage.

 

[Laurentius]

Thank you. I have seen that, but the one I have is a modern reprint of a scanned old edition. I wouldn't even be comfortable with a 300 years old copy.

 

[rothbard]

I have just found out that someone published a macronised transcription of Castellio's Bible, including Genesis and the Gospels. It's available on Github in epub, TeX, HTML and text formats, and I have attached a PDF version to this post.

Some links to scans of the full book can be found in the first post in this thread.