I was working with the Lexicon Universale and ran across the story of Ibycus, a Greek lyric poet, as cribbed from a Latin version of Plutarch‘s ΠεÏὶ ἀδολεσχίας (De garrulitate): Ibycus cùm in latrones incidisset iam occidendus, grues fortè supervolantes obtestatus est. Aliquanto pòst tempore, cùm iidem latrones in foro sederent, rursumque grues supervolarent, per […]
Also tagged 4th century, Ausonius, cranes, dactylic hexameter, Ibycus, PlutarchI’m not really fond of this set of posts, because it’s turning out to be such an infodump. I’ve discovered the fun part about posting here isn’t just the data, but what I think about it and what I’ve been learning along the way… and this was all so long ago I hardly remember. But, […]
Also tagged Egypt, nomesContinued from Monday’s post. So half the hard part about these nome names is that the data I collected is in somewhat of a disorganized form. Rather—to look at it more positively—it’s organized in too many different ways. I had one file where the few data I was absolutely certain of were marked in green, […]
Also tagged Egypt, nomesI started writing this egons ago—late January—but it got enormous and unwieldy and I never managed to whip it into much of a presentable shape.  But then, this is a blog—there’s nothing wrong with posting incomplete ideas per se.  If this ever gets finished, it’ll be a page of its own on the sidebar here. […]
Also tagged 1st century, Egypt, nomes, PlinyTerence, Hecyra 5.3: Nam mÄ•mi|ni abhÄ«nc | mensÄ«s | decÄ“m | fere Äd | me nÅc|te prÄ«|mÄ confÅge|re anhÄ“|lantÄ“m | domÅ«m | sinÄ• co|mitÄ•, vi|ni plÄ“|nÅ«m, cum hoc ănu|lo. ————— Because I remember, about ten months ago, that he ran up to me at my house early one night, out of breath, all alone, full […]
Also tagged 2nd century BC, TerenceToday’s dictionary work, for acies (Cicero, Ad Atticum 10.7): Mea causa autem alia est, quod beneficio vinctus ingratus esse non possum, nec tamen in acie [me] sed Melitæ aut alio in loco simili [oppidulo] futurum puto. My case, though, is different, because I’m bound by a favor and can’t be ungrateful, but nevertheless I’m not […]
Also tagged 1913ese, 1st century BC, 2nd century BC, acies, Cicero, Plautus, trochaic septenarius, venter meus(Yeah, I know I haven’t posted here in a while — I’ve been working on a large blog post and have been neglecting the smaller ones.) Horace, Epode 8: sÄ“d Ä«ncÄtÄt | mÄ“ pÄ“ctÅs Ä“t | mÄmmÇ£ pÅtrÄ“s Ä•quÄ«nă quÄ|lÄ“s Å«bÄ•ră vÄ“ntÄ“rquÄ• mÅl|lÄs Ä“t fÄ•mÅ«r | tÅmÄ“ntÄbÅ«s Ä“xÄ«lÄ• sÅ«|rÄ«s ÄddÄtÅ«m. But your chest excites me, […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, Horace, iambic dimeter, iambic trimeter, venterOkay, here’s a fun problem from the Latin Wiktionary: trying to sort out category and page titles and needing decent translations for language names. Fun because there are large portions of the world that have one Latin name… and large portions that have many Latin names, muddled together. For ‘Abkhaz’, for example, I have: Abchasius, […]
Also tagged Abkhaz, LatinCicero, giving examples of the use of comparison to be witty, quoting a man responding to doubts that money was given to Magius because Magius was so poor, De Oratore 2.66: “Erras,” inquit, “Scaure; ego enim Magium non conservasse dico, sed tamquam nudus nuces legeret, in ventre abstulisse.” “Scaurus,” he said, “you are mistaken; I’m […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, CiceroCicero, De Fato, 12.28-29, showing once again that ‘nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum’: Sic enim interrogant: “Si fatum tibi est ex hoc morbo convalescere, sive tu medicum adhibueris sive non adhibueris, convalesces; item, si fatum tibi est ex hoc morbo non convalescere, sive tu medicum adhibueris sive non adhibueris, […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, Cicero, fallacies, philosophy