Job. James Duport. . .
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Of these, the one was called by the famous name Jemimah, the First, because the night of misery had passed, and day had come;
And after her the younger was Kassia, lovely — Kassia, a beautiful name, whose fragrance was most gracious;
And the third they called fair-tressed Keren-Happuch, because he gave her a splendid horn of antimony as a name.
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English (DeepSeek, 2026) (OCR draft) (English) (Machine-assisted English translation of James Duport's Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job.)
Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.
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Homeric Greek (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (James Duport, Threnothriambos: a Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.14 focus
Τάων μέν ῥ' ἐκαλεῖτο περικλυτὶς Ἰεμιμαῖα
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Πρώτη, ἐπεὶ νὺξ ᾤχετ' ὀϊζύος, ἤλυθε δ' ἦμαρ·
Τὴν δὲ μέθ' ὁπλοτέρη ἦν Κασίη ἱμερόεσσα,
Κασίη, ὄνομα καλὸν, ὅυ χαριεστάτη ὀδμή·
Τὴν δὲ τρίτην ἐκάλεσσαν ἐυπλόκαμον Κερεναππὼκ,
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"Οὕνεκά οἱ στίβεως κέρας ἀγλαὸν ἔνομ' ἔδωκε.
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Latin (James Duport, 1676) (OCR draft) Experimental (Duport's facing Latin translation of his Homeric Greek verse paraphrase of Job (1676).) — 42.14 focus
Quarum vocabatur inſignis Jemimæa
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Prima, quandoquidem nox præteriit ærumnæ, venit aut
ẽ
em dies;
Poſt illam autem junior erat Caſſia amabilis,
Caſſia, nomen bonum, cujus gratiſſimus odor;
Tertiam verò vocabant bene-comatam Keren-Happuc,
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Quippe ei ſtibii cornu pulchrum nomen dedit.