Koine and Biblical and Medieval Greek • Properly distinguishing between the...
This post is question, but includes a lot of research. I'm calling all Greek nerds here... if anyone has any comments or suggestions for this list below, your (constructive) criticism is welcome. Let...
View ArticleLearning Greek • Plato's second letter, beginning
Ἤκουσα Ἀρχεδήμου ὅτι σὺ ἡγῇ χρῆναι περὶ σοῦ μὴ μόνον ἐμὲ ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐπιτηδείους τοῦ φλαῦρόν τι ποιεῖν ἢ λέγειν περὶ σέ the meaning is something like this: I have heard from...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Why a + ablative?
Hello,I have see the following sentence:Servī tristēs senēsque auxilium sapientī ā vāte petent.It is translated from this original:The sad and old servants will seek aid of the wise soothsayer.Now, my...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Genitive Plural of "mare" (sea)
Allen and Greenough (page 32) says that the genitive plural is "marum" and that this occurs "once only.""Latin for Canadian Schools" says that the "genitive plural of mare is lacking.""Our Latin...
View ArticleSpecific Text Questions • Editions of Plato
Hi all. Im currently reading Burnet's edition with commentary of the Phaedo, having just read his Euthyphro-Apology-Crito as well. I've also got an old Adam's edition of the Republic which I'll start...
View ArticleOpen Board • Hello, I am studying CLC and Latinum
SalveOver 30 years ago I studied classical Greek at university but not Latin. I'm now self-studying Latin. I started with CLC Book I, and then got diverted with DuoLingo. DuoLingo was entertaining but...
View ArticleLearning Latin • vulgate John 19:29
John 19:29 Vas ergo erat positum aceto plenum. Illi autem spongiam plenam aceto, hyssopo circumponentes, obtulerunt ori ejus. Is aceto dat or abl and why? The Greek seems to have genitive here. Either...
View ArticleLearning Latin • How well does chatgpt translate Latin?
Specifically the free version, as of now. Apologies if this has been discussed before, I did not see anything that answers my question from the search engine.Statistics: Posted by Smyrnean — Mon Apr...
View ArticleLearning Greek • My update on using JACT Reading Greek
I just want to give a brief update on my use of the Cambridge JACT Reading Greek text. I posted a few times previously with questions and I should probably keep doing that, meaning, yes, I still have...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Mark 16:2
2 Et valde mane una sabbatorum, veniunt ad monumentum, orto jam sole. what does una mean here exactly? It should mean "one" but "first" seems better in context. But una is a cardinal number not...
View ArticleLearning Greek • question re a word in JACT Reading Greek
Hello,I feel I may be stumped in trying to account for the form of a certain word in Section 9-B of the Cambridge JACT Reading Greek text.Section 9 is about Lysistrata...My question is about a word in...
View ArticleLearning Greek • one more difficult word from JACT Reading Greek
Well, I have worked on this problem I will present here and I can't solve it. I have learned that it does take some concentration and something like detective work to figure some things out. (I am...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Question on AG 271
"quaeritur num mors malum sit.""the question is whether death is an evil."The translation makes sense to me, but my first translation would be "whether death is an evil is being questioned." Now you...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Reading Medieval latin
I am interested in reading medieval texts in Latin. Since I already speak fluent modern Greek, read Ancient Greek and German, I would like to find texts to read in Latin and learn this way. Can...
View ArticleLearning Greek • question about dative case (JACT Reading Greek)
I have one more question about Section 9-B (JACT Reading Greek, first edition).My problem here is with the dative case. The words in question are from Section 9-B, line 7. I translate roughly as 'In...
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