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Scanning Plautus

Plautus (Casina 39-42): Īs sÄ“r|vōs, sÄ•d ăb|hÄ«nc ān|nōs fāc|t(um) Ä“st sÄ“|dÄ•cÄ«m, quōm cōn|spÄ­cā|tÅ«st prÄ«|mÅ­lō | crÄ•pÅ«s|cÅ­lō pÅ­Ä“l|l(am) Ä“xpō|nÄ«, ădÄ­t | Ä“xtÄ“m|pl(o) ād mÅ­lÄ­|Ä•rÄ“m, qu(æ) Ä«ll(am) Ä“x|pōnÄ“|bāt: ō|rāt, Å­t Ä•|ām dÄ“t | sÄ­bÄ­ This servant—now, this happened sixteen years ago, when he managed to see a little girl being abandoned, at first light—immediately went up to […]

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2008 08 08 Muke Latin Comments (0)

'Abhinc' in Horace.

Horace, against time hallowing all things (Epistulae 2.1): ScrÄ«ptŏr ăb|hÄ«nc ān|nōs cÄ“n|tÅ«m quÄ« | dÄ“cÄ­dÄ­t, | Ä«ntÄ“r pÄ“rfÄ“c|tōs vÄ•tÄ•|rÄ“squÄ• rÄ•|fÄ“rrÄ« | dÄ“bÄ•t ăn | Ä«ntÄ“r vÄ«lÄ«s | ātquÄ• nŏ|vōs? Ä’x|clÅ«dāt | jÅ«rgĭă | fÄ«nÄ«s. The author who passed away a hundred years ago—should he be placed among the perfect and the ancient, or among the […]

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2008 06 16 Muke Latin Comments (1)

Cicero on untimely deaths.

Cicero on untimely deaths (Philippica 2.46): Etenim, si abhinc annos prope viginti hoc ipso in templo negavi posse mortem immaturam esse consulari, quanto verius non negabo seni! Indeed, if nearly twenty years ago—in this very temple—I said there could be no such thing as death being premature for someone who has been consul, how much […]

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2008 04 11 Muke Latin Comments (0)

Cicero on rigged elections in Sicily.

Cicero on rigged elections in Sicily (In Verrem Secunda 2.52): Herodotus cum Roma revertitur, diebus, ut ipse putabat, XV ante comitia, offendit eum mensem qui consequitur mensem comitialem, comitiis iam abhinc XXX diebus factis. When Herodotus returns from Rome, on what he was thinking was fifteen days before the comitia, he’s shocked to find it’s […]

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2008 04 02 Muke Latin Comments (0)