Chacham's Journal: Looking for Galen's De Temperamentis in English (6)

It's been some time, but i finally have some good news on Galen's De Temperamentis in English. A couple good pieces even.

The last message, which was mentioned in the last JE on the subject, was on January 5, 2016. I thanked her and that was that. After seeing nothing come along, i picked up the thread on March 27th this year:

I was thinking about this again, and thought i would ask for an update. June 2016 has come and gone, and i still do not see anything about Volume 2.

Has the book been cancelled?

I received her reply the next day:

I have forwarded your enquiry to my colleagues in the Classics team. Volume 2 is not cancelled but, according to our database, it is still not yet submitted and it looks like it could be another 2 years before it is published unfortunately.

For an email thread i started in July 2014, another two years seemed like it fit. But for whatever reason, i decided to look again at the Cambridge Galen Translations series and saw Volume 2 was listed for release in January 2019!

When i first saw it a number of things confused me. The listed work is "Volume 1. Mixtures (De Temperamentis)". The "Volume 1" part confused me because this is volume 2, i did not recognize "Mixtures" as being what i wanted, and i completely glossed over the italicized part that listed the title i recognized.

Galen wrote the book in Greek. It was translated to Latin under the name De Temperamentis, which in English translates to "The Temperaments," which is a bit different than "Mixtures". (I went into a little more detail in the first installment in this series. I assume it is called Mixtures Volume 1 because Mixtures includes other volumes. In any case this is what i have been waiting for. I just didn't realize it yet.

So, i went back to Distributed Proofreaders to see if the project had moved. Of course it didn't, and i didn't think much would come from something that has stagnated for the past four years. I asked again about progress in the thread (waking up a thread after 2 years) and got a reply from someone trying to help, and i must thank her for doing exactly that. There were some private messages, and finally, after just under 2 months, the project leader is attempting to wake things up again, with mentions there and in the Type In thread.

At first i repeated my mistake saying the work did not look like it was being translated in Volume 2, but i have since edited the post and i pmed the leader letting him know, in case that would affect his (or anyone's) decision to help. I mean, if it is going to be translated from the original, this project may not be worth the effort.

I also emailed the other guy who was interested in this. So, i may receive a reply from him or more information on the type-in project. The Cambridge book itself should be available in January, but i am kind of waiting for the delays that i have seen over and over again push it further away. The first volume has dropped over $100 in price from its original listing. This second book seems to be listed at $125, so i may wait a little bit even after it is released for the price to come down a bit. Who knows?

The saga seems far from over, but it just got a little more interesting.