Synonymous Variation in Old Slavic Translations from Greek

The article is devoted to the actual topic of lexical variation in early translations from Greek into Slavic. The research material is based on the texts of the Miscellany of 1073 and "13 Orations of Gregory Nazianzen" (based on a manuscript of the 11th century, published by A.S. Budilovich). The article provides, analyzes and classifies examples of lexical synonymy, the emergence of which is due not to the processes of existing of the texts, but to the intentions of translators. In addition, cases of synonymy of syntactic constructions are considered, as well as different ways of including Greek loan words in synonymous series. It is concluded that the phenomenon of synonymous variation was not only a part of the translation technique of the Slavic first teachers Cyril and Methodius, but also further developed in the works of their followers, including quite distant ones.

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