Learning Greek • Re: question re a word in JACT Reading Greek
The augment is at the end of the παρε at the beginning of the word. The ε replaces the final vowel in παρα.Statistics: Posted by MattK — Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:48 pm
View ArticleLearning Greek • Re: My update on using JACT Reading Greek
I don't know the Reading Greek book but I agree with Seneca that it all seems to be going really well for you. Congratulations on making it this far - there are many who don't!Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Re: Mark 16:2
It just translates the Greek literally (τῇ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων), so your question is more about the Greek than the Latin. This formula for day 1 of the sabbath (or of the week) is in line with e.g. Matt....
View ArticleLearning Greek • one more difficult word from JACT Reading Greek
Well, I have worked on this problem I will present here and I can't solve it. I have learned that it does take some concentration and something like detective work to figure some things out. (I am...
View ArticleLearning Greek • Re: one more difficult word from JACT Reading Greek
Nothing wrong with guessing, so long as the guess fits. And your guess is a good one: ἔδει is the imperfect of δεῖ.Statistics: Posted by mwh — Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:28 pm
View ArticleLearning Latin • Question on AG 271
"quaeritur num mors malum sit.""the question is whether death is an evil."The translation makes sense to me, but my first translation would be "whether death is an evil is being questioned." Now you...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Re: Question on AG 271
quaeritur doesn’t mean something is being questioned in the sense that doubt is being cast on it (as in “I question whether death is a bad thing—in fact I’d say it’s a good thing”). It means that...
View ArticleGreek Textbooks and Study Groups • Re: The Beginner's Greek Book by John...
I've reached a milestone in the textbook, Lesson XXXV: The Subjunctive Active. The syntax taught includes conditional sentences of the "future more vivid" type (to use the term used in Latin...
View ArticleOpen Board • Re: Hello, I am studying CLC and Latinum
The tools you use will change depending on what you want to do. Do you wish to have a thorough command of ancient Latin, to be able to read Cicero and understand the complex wordplay in the Aeneid? Or...
View ArticleKoine and Biblical and Medieval Greek • Re: Luke 12:20. Who are...
I hope I’m not breaking any rules by reopening a thread that has been dormant for six months. I just noticed that Joachim Jeremias gives his own answer to your specific question, citing chapter and...
View ArticleLearning Latin • Reading Medieval latin
I am interested in reading medieval texts in Latin. Since I already speak fluent modern Greek, read Ancient Greek and German, I would like to find texts to read in Latin and learn this way. Can...
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