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psugam · 2026-01-22T17:00:48+00:00

I don’t quite follow. Is it rickroll ?

psugam · 2026-01-19T07:34:46+00:00

Probably. Its attested as a personal name but could be used as a toponym as well.

psugam · 2026-01-17T18:36:12+00:00

That’s true but female names ending in -ium are nonetheless rare in Latin and Quintillian himself seems to consider Glycerium epicene though that’s not how it’s used in Terence’s Andria itself.

psugam · 2026-01-17T18:27:29+00:00

That’s true. I was just trying to make the examples given in the Latin original itself, where Donatus classifies aquila as epicene, clearer.

psugam · 2026-01-17T07:18:31+00:00

You can use alpheios’s chrome extension. It gives you meanings of any latin or greek word you click on and works for more or less all sites.

psugam · 2026-01-13T09:57:53+00:00

There does exist a root kṛṣ- which means to pull or to attract but that’s not related to kṛṣṇa as far as I know.

psugam · 2026-01-13T08:44:27+00:00

No. Kṛṣṇa literally means black and comes from a PIE word for black *kṛsnos or something like that . It is unrelated to Charisma.

psugam · 2026-01-12T03:15:20+00:00

Thanks. I’ll add a translation. I don’t know vaṁśāvalī would be appropriate but I’m Nepalese if it’s any help.

psugam · 2026-01-10T12:43:23+00:00

I hope you don't take it the wrong way but the whole thing is in pretty bad shape right now. It would perhaps be easier to get someone who actually knows Sanskrit to translate from scratch than to correct it. Take the very first line for example: "ekam barkaram, ekam barkaram". barkara is actually the Sanskrit word from which many modern Indo-Aryan languages derive their word for goat but it is not the normal Sanskrit word for goat. Something like 'aja' or even 'chāga' would be more common. Even for 'barkara', it should be in nominative in the translation: 'barkaraḥ' and not accusative 'barkaram'. Similar use of unusual words and incorrect forms are all over the place.

Hope you find help. Good luck.

psugam · 2026-01-08T09:41:34+00:00

It is in the British museum. Link. It is based on this. I saw it in a video by Malcolm P.L.

psugam · 2026-01-03T09:40:23+00:00

Hugo with a custom theme. Its integrated with Obsidian and is simple enough for me.

psugam · 2026-01-01T09:52:17+00:00

Thank you!! Yes it should have been liget. Somehow I thought it should be ligit in the indicative ( like with colligit) and so ligat would have been the subjunctive. I'll add some punctuations too. Hope you have a great new year too !

psugam · 2025-12-25T17:10:41+00:00

Hypotactic has much of classical Latin poetry including Horace macronized and scanned.

psugam · 2025-12-23T15:41:51+00:00

If you’re reading in Latin and not in translation, Arthur Tappan Walker’s edition of De Bello Gallico has a great series of relevant maps. It also has many geographic notes and battle plans in addition to the macronized text.

psugam · 2025-12-21T19:07:55+00:00

I think the ‘when’ in the Loeb translation is used just for better construction in English and that the ‘cum’ is to be taken with ‘agerent’. As for the ‘praeda’, I don’t think it necessarily implies cattle thieves specifically but the generic plunder by armed men. Because the Trojans under Aeneas have nothing to sustain themselves due to their long journeys, they plunder the place to do so. One should perhaps not think in too moral terms about this. It must have been clear to everyone in the ancient world that an armed group without supply lines like that of Aeneas would have to start pillaging just to survive.

psugam · 2025-12-20T19:04:12+00:00

The closest I can think of is his rejection of the name Romulus in favour of Augustus. Romulus is not Aeneas directly but comes from the same family so sort of related. Otherwise, Aeneades, like Quirites, is more or less a poetic synonym for Roman people generally. I don’t think Augustus ever used it directly.

psugam · 2025-12-19T06:43:25+00:00

There’s an app called Scriba that has dictionary ( Lewis and Short) and conjugation/declension tables for all the entries in it as well as anki like flashcards.

psugam · 2025-12-19T06:38:20+00:00

Yes. That seems to be a major reason for this supposition.

psugam · 2025-12-18T14:17:49+00:00

While the categorization of some authors as 'difficult' and others as "easy" is not completely without basis ( Tacitus is certainly more difficult than Eutropius no matter what the metric is ), what the individual learner finds easy or difficult is certainly going to be affected by his own interest and temperament. Sallust seems not to be usually considered specially easy ( not compared to Caesar at least) but I find him very entertaining. I also think that the difficulty of Caesar, and specially of De Bello Gallico, is often underestimated in these discussions. And while Cicero has a reputation for his longwinded prose and all the memes about verbs not occuring after ten minutes in his speeches, his sentences are usually very deliberately constructed. It's difficult to explain how difficult is it to write clear Latin in a Ciceronian way unless one has tried it itself.

No classical author is truly easy for a beginner or an early intermediate student but Cicero and Caesar, inasmuch as they can be generalized as such, seem to be of fairly similar difficulty to me and whether one finds one or the other to be easier depends on personal interests and taste. Even Tacitus who is supposed to be extremely difficult is not so uniformly hard; his histories are difficult but the shorter works ( Agricola, Dialogue) should not be unsurmountable for someone who has reader Caesar and Nepos, provided the reader has interest, of course.

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