#latin problems

[catchmewiddershins]

Dear my current translation,

Politely, WHY THE AHGKJESH ARE ALL OF YOUR NOUNS IN THE PLURAL BUT ALL OF YOUR VERBS IN THE SINGULAR

I’LL TRANSLATE IT WRONG NO MATTER WHAT I DO

YOU ARE AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT - WRITTEN CIRCA 60AD WHY ARE YOU SO FRUSTRATING

PLEASE MAKE SENSE

I KNOW THAT ALL OF THE NOUNS CAN BE EITHER SINGULAR OR PLURAL BCS THEY ARE THIRD DECLENSION AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY CAN BE WHATEVER THE DARN THEY WANT HOWEVER THE SINGULAR MAKES NO SENSE AND, EVEN MY BOOK SAYS THEY’RE PLURAL

SO WHY, IN THE NAME OF EVERY BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY IN THIS WORLD, ARE ALL OF YOUR VERBS IN THE THIRD PERSON SINGULAR

IT IS NOT THE OLD MEN HE RECOGNISED IT’S THEY RECOGNISED OK SENECTUS SENSIT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AND I SWEAR IF THE ONLY REASON YOU HAVE WRITTEN SENECTUS SENSIT INSTEAD OF SENECTUS SENSERUNT IS BECAUSE OF  EVER LOVING S C A N S I O N

I WILL WRING THIS BOOK DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME THIS IS NOT ABSURDIST POETRY IT IS AN EPIC DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD YOUR 7 LINE SENTENCES ARE TO TRANSLATE ALREADY DO NOT TEST ME

AND STOP SWITCHING TENSES I CAN’T TELL WHETHER THIS IS THE HISTORIC PRESENT OR NOT BECAUSE IT’S DIRECT SPEECH YOU MIGHT AS WELL DO A DIOMEDES AND JUST CHUCK A ROCK AT ME ALREADY - IS THIS PAST TENSE BCS THEY’RE DEAD LIKE WHY ARE THEY BOYS IN THE PRESENT BUT THE OLD MEN IN THE PAST FOR THE LOVE OF-

Yours faithfully,

Wid

[latinthusiast]

When did my flirting style become “recommend Braund’s translation of Lucan and see what they think”?

[quomododragon]

Everytime I see the Ubisoft logo I whisper "where soft?" to myself and feel the uncontrollable need to pet one of my cats.

[faustulum-augustum]

Classics Kid Problem

Getting “ventus” and “vetus” in the same chapter

[ioczurma]

The Generalization of Latin and Hispanic people needs to stop.

Not every Hispanic is Latin.

Not every Latin person is Hispanic.

Not every Latin person speaks Spanish.

Not all of us are tan.

Not all of us are short.

Not all of us have wild curly hair like most seem to think.

We come in all the shades of the rainbow, every size you can think of, and any shape you can dream of.

[sumusindomitae-blog]

[rex-sidereus]

latin, then: here's a text, an oxford translation, and a couple of commentaries, the better one is in german but don't worry. now let's all look at the critical apparatus to figure out what that cum is doing.

latin, now: the text is literally a reprint from a 1516 folio, the only translation was done in garibaldi's italy, and you are one of approximately ten people who looked at it in the past four hundred years.

[paper-horses]

translating ancient latin for a few years has really messed up my perception of word order.. like i just jam all the words in there and it makes sense to me and then someone reads it and is appropriately confused and i feel FOOLISH