Re: Some help with Latin

On 9/24/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> Could someone please help me mark out the quantities in this
> Latin line?
>
> >
> >   Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio,
> >   sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Ah, good old Catullus.  I find the Perseus project's online copy of
Lewis & Short (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin)
to be helpful here.  But note that in the standard L&S (as opposed to
the "Elementary" one), the marking is backwards (long vowels unmarked,
short vowels marked with a breve).


>    O:di: et amo:.  Qua:re: id faciam, fortasse requi:ris.
That should be requi:ri:s

>    Nescio:, sed fieri: sentio: et excrucior.
Otherwise, looks right!
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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