<P> Modern critical editions of the Septuagint are based on the Codices Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus . </P> <P> The Septuagint derives its name from the Latin versio septuaginta interpretum, "translation of the seventy interpreters", Greek: ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν ἑβδομήκοντα, hē metáphrasis tōn hebdomḗkonta, "translation of the seventy". However, it was not until the time of Augustine of Hippo (354--430 CE) that the Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures came to be called by the Latin term Septuaginta . The Roman numeral LXX (seventy) is commonly used as an abbreviation, as are G (\ displaystyle (\ mathfrak (G))) or G . </P> <P> Seventy - two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria . </P> <P> This narrative is found in the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates, and is repeated by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus and by various later sources, including St. Augustine . The story is also found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud: </P>

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