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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- me fussing at Jowett again

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Book I section 46.   αἱ μὲν δὴ νῆες ἀφικνοῦνται ἐς τὴν Κέρκυραν , οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι, ἐπειδὴ αὐτοῖς παρεσκεύαστο, ἔπλεον ἐπὶ τὴν Κέρκυραν ναυ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- section 45, a little vocabulary

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Book I section 45. τοιαύτῃ μὲν γνώμῃ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι τοὺς Κερκυραίους προσεδέξαντο, καὶ τῶν Κορινθίων ἀπελθόντων οὐ πολὺ ὕστερον δέκα ναῦς αὐ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- conditional 8

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I have this as conditional 9 in my file but it's only the 8th time conditionals are listed on the index. Anyway. Book I section 44.   ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- the last imperative

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We have now seen imperatives in two aspects, one imperfective eventive and the other progressive conceptual, dekhesthe from last week. Odd...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Mendel Beilis -- the scene of the crime

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Again, my mind works slowly or I would have posted this in 2013, when I translated the transcript, or even in 2019 when I posted about the m...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- who do the Korinthians think they are?

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Book I section 43. ἡμεῖς δὲ περιπεπτωκότες οἷς ἐν τῇ Λακεδαίμονι αὐτοὶ προείπομεν, τοὺς σφετέρους ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν , νῦν παρ᾽...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- another stunning translation problem

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Book I section 42. ‘ὧν ἐνθυμηθέντες καὶ νεώτερός τις παρὰ πρεσβυτέρου αὐτὰ μαθὼν ἀξιούτω τοῖς ὁμοίοις ἡμᾶς ἀμύνεσθαι, καὶ μὴ νομίσῃ δίκαι...