La magnitud de los elefantes indios en las batallas de Rafia (Polibio V 84.5-6) y de Magnesia (Livio XXXVII 39.13) ¿Dónde está el error?
Title (trans.)
The magnitude of the Indian elephants in the battles of Raphia (Polybius V 84.5-6) and magnesia (Livy XXXVII 39.13). where is the mistake?Author
García Hernández, BenjamínEntity
UAM. Departamento de Filología ClásicaPublisher
CSICDate
2020-06-30Citation
10.3989/emerita.2020.01.1940
Emerita. Revista de linguistica y filologia clasica 88.1 (2020): 1-23
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0013-6662DOI
10.3989/emerita.2020.01.1940Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2020.01.1940Subjects
African elephants; Indian elephants; Magnitudo; Privative opposition; FilologíaRights
© 2020 CSICAbstract
Until Africa was colonised, there was a general consensus that the Indian elephants of Antiochus III, which defeated Ptolemy IV’s Libyan ones in the battle of Raphia (217 B.C.) as described by Polybius, were far greater in size. Livy confirms this in his account of the battle of Magnesia (190 B.C.). Despite this, the use of the word suggests a different meaning than magnitude, and so Polybius did not make a mistake, as suspected, after all. Whilst the Roman historian refers to the great individual size of each species of elephant, the Greek is referring to the scale of the elephantry itself. The key to this interpretation lies in the dou-ble value of the unmarked term in the privative opposition between magnitu-do and multitudo. The first two terms represent, in addition to individual size specifically, the generic concept of magnitude. Hasta la colonización de África, ha estado vigente
la opinión de que los elefantes indios de Antíoco
III, que derrotaron a los libios de Ptolomeo IV en
la batalla de Rafia (217 a. C.) descrita por Polibio,
eran de tamaño superior. Tito Livio lo confirma a
propósito de la batalla de Magnesia (190 a. C.).
Sin embargo, el empleo de μέγεθος sugiere un significado
diferente de magnitudo, de manera que el
error atribuido a Polibio no es tal. Mientras el historiador
romano se atiene a la idea de la corpulencia
individual de una y otra especie de elefantes, el
griego tiene en cuenta la magnitud del conjunto de
la unidad táctica. La clave interpretativa
está en el
doble valor del término no marcado de la oposición
privativa que forman μέγεθος y πλῆθος, magnitudo y multitudo; pues los dos primeros vocablos representan, además del tamaño individual específico, el concepto genérico de magnitud.
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