How do I read dactylic hexameter Latin poetry when it's translated to English.
For example, how should I read this out loud?:
"I sing of warfare and a man at war. From the sea-coast of Troy in early days He came to Italy by destiny, To our Lavinian western shore, A fugitive, this captain, buffeted"
Dominic Peterson
just learn latin. Shouldn't take longer than 6 months.
Grayson Adams
Well that's blank verse (iambic centimeter). You would have to read it in Latin for dactylic hexameter. The feet are different in both languages anyways. English is stress based and Latin is syllable length based.
Angel Green
>For example, how should I read this out loud?
Completely up to you. The Latin text is the only version that has a correct and incorrect way of doing so.
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James Morris
Really? I thought most languages require a year to become proficient on the elementary level.
Zachary Thompson
Assuming you're fluent in English, Latin can be learned in half the time of another language if you're dedicated. It's just backwards at times. It can probably even be learned in less than 4 months if you're just wanting to read it easily.
Read lingua latina. All of it, and then read book two. Do every exercise. Have fun, the textbooks are all free online. I just googled lingua latina and it popped right up in pdf form
Adrian Rodriguez
That's because you need to learn to write and speak most languages.
It's far easier to just learn to read.
Ayden Foster
I got to an intermediate level of Ancient Greek in six months tbf famalam
Colton Richardson
I'm fluent in latin and ready to begin ancient greek--
Where do I start? Give me the complete rundown.
Thanks cutie
Landon Lewis
I used the Hermaion textbook and the Ragon grammar. Start reading with Xenophon's Anabasis.
Gabriel Lopez
It's impossible to keep the meter exact in a translation. If you want, get it in the original language so you can sound out the rhythms and rhymes in conjunction with English so you can actually understand it.
Ian Sanchez
Is it possible to learn two languages at once?
I want to take Latin and German this year.... a local school is offering both. Is this retarded or brilliant?
I'm a devoted student btw, I can focus quite well.
Colton Torres
I learned 3 languages in one year.
You can do it.
Eli Butler
No, human being were not meant to learn two things at once. I once tried to study maths and biology at the same time and got a stroke
Caleb Sanchez
These guys are pranking you, or they're just retarded. With effort you might become able to read simplistic texts like Caesar or Vulgate, but latin poetry would shatter your balls.
Jonathan Long
No it would not. If he practiced an hour a day for at least 3 and a half months, he would be just fine reading latin texts.
Jeremiah Cruz
Maybe Caesar, not Virgil though.
Blake Richardson
I practiced Greek an hour a day for three weeks and now I read the Iliad casually, your shit is retarded
Camden Ortiz
bullshit. What was your routine?
John Johnson
>Is this retarded or brilliant? It's retardant I really think this is going to slow you down, better focus on just one at once.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Well, after learning ancient Greek in university and self studied for several years I practiced an hour a day for 3 weeks then just read it.
Tyler Ward
I've been working through Oreberg for a few months. The Vulgate is pretty approachable. Caesar is a challenge due to his habit of long sentences with lots of subclauses. Poetry is entirely incomprehensible at this point.
Ethan Gutierrez
Noted. You can never tell with Veeky Forums
Dylan Ward
Like this:
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Arms and the man I sing, of Troy who first from the shores
Don't let Fitzgerald fuck you up. I loved his Iliad and Odyssey (but I don't know Greek).
I read his Aeneid before I learned Latin, and there are times where I really don't like how he translated it.
There is a lot of wiggle room in terms of translation from Latin to English, but sticking to the original as close as possible is best. And I don't know why he decides to write in blank verse either. Might as well just give us a prose translation and be as close as possible to the original.
David Bell
yeah it's absolutely retarded to think one can read Latin verse (especially Golden age poets) with 6 months of Latin.
Brandon Russell
btw I put everything in it's original word order there, the line sounds fine except the 'of Troy...the shores' of course it is the shores of Troy.