r/latin

Someone helped me out, thanks everyone! :) Hi everyone! I'm currently writing a master thesis on Ovid's Metamorphoses. There is an article that contains valuable information for my research, but my university doesn't provide access and as a student I'm to broke to pay to read it, haha. I know it is a small chance, but is there someone here who has the article available? I'm looking for "Jaap Loos, “More Astronomy in Ovid’s Daedalus and Icarus,” Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 16, no. 1 ( June 2019): 71–119." (I can read all his other articles, except for this one). I would be very grateful! ❤️

I've been learning Latin for a while and so far I'm having good progress in terms of prose reading, I've had no issue reading and understanding Breviarium of Eutropius and Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi and recently I'm reading mostly renaissance and medieval works like De Monarchia of Dante, but whenever I try to read poetry it seems that my understanding goes out of the window especially since word order seems to be more flexible and the fact that in poetry there are many omissions and contraction of words, do you have any advice in order to read poetry well ? Thank you so much in advance

Hi. I'm a danish student currently struggling with a latin course. Earlier in the semester, when googling a difficult passage for help, the only helpful source was this subreddit. So now i hope you will all help me out, if you can :)

I am looking for mnemonics to help me memorize latin grammar rules and such... I struggle with remembering the declension of the nouns (expect for 1st and 2nd declension) and all of the relative pronouns... I will receive any kind of help with gratitude.

Sorry if i am a bit unclear or if i use a word the wrong way; english is my second language.

Thank you in advance.

I will start with the only one i know; "after si, nisi, num and ne, ali takes a holiday" - if it says "si qua" it is actually "si aliqua" instead..

Me gustaría conocer sus experiencias leyendo la biblia en latin. Me gustaria aprender latin para leer la biblia en ese idioma.

Hello, I have a question! So the phrase "quia precium sanguinis est" is translated as "This is the price of blood" but doesn't quia mean "because"? Shouldn't it be "because it is the price of blood" or something like that?
I apologize if this is a dumb question! :')

Adulēscēns vīgintī annōrum sum quī socium habēre volō quī Latinē loquī sciat, ut Latīnē commūnicēmus. Huius linguae rudis sum, sed discere cupiō.

I am a twenty year old man who wants to have a friend who knows how to speak Latin, so that we can communicate in Latin. I am a beginner in this language, but I would like to get better.

Probably a long shot but my teacher just told me our exam would include a passage with Gerundive + esse or non esse, probably with a auctorial dative.
Does anyone know a segment? I am well prepared but no need to challenge the fatum…

Salvete! I have experience with the Classical Latin pronunciation since I've been using it for nearly two years of learning Latin. Recently, I got interested in reading the Bible in Latin, and for that I'd like to use the Ecclesiastical Pronunciation.

I pretty much nailed all the consonant sounds. However, I've been quite confused about the vowels, leaving me frustrated. I've been looking at the Wiktionary entries since I really like IPA notation and because other websites/books/videos didn't really help me. But the IPA notation still confused me.

1. Sometimes the letter e is pronounced as [ε] and other times as [e]. When is which pronunciation used?
   Here a few examples from Wiktionary:
   pervenio [perˈvɛː.ni.o]
   roseus [ˈrɔː.s̬e.us]
   meus [ˈmɛː.us]
   mille [ˈmil.le]

2. And I have similar problems with [ɔ] and [o]. When is it which one?

(For i and u I gathered that only [i] and [u] exist and y is [i].)

4. And overall for all vowels I noticed in every word I saw that long vowels only appear in stressed syllables. Is this correct? If that's the case, is the use of macrons like it can be done in Classical Latin not recommended in Ecclesiastical Latin because only the stressed syllable is long anyway and all other vowels are short?

I'm sorry for the long text, I just really want to pronounce it properly.

Hi, so I will soon finish familia romana and I'm wondering how can I work the grammar better because I feel like I can read easily and understand the grammar but hardly reproduce it in writing (and I plan to write in latin). Also I'm french so i don't know if I can understand the grammar and translations with Wheelock since I don't know the english grammar. Thanks for your help

Is it a good way to learn grammar deeply by translating some sentences in FR ?

How are people translating Latin passages they are stuck on? Do they refer to commentaries or jump straight to AI/Wiktionary?

Há alguma regra para saber se uma vogal é "ā" (longa) ou "ă" (curta).?

Hi all quick question:

Latin noob and wanting to buy Lingua Latina after trying a sample of it, it seems great. I got a really good price on it (a little suspicious but it's on Amazon) however it says "Spanish Edition".

AFAIK the entire text is in Latin, so not sure it would matter, but maybe there are some vocabulary lists or something for which you would need the correct language version?

Is there even a Spanish version, or is it just a listing error?

Thanks!

P.S. Publisher is either "Cultura Clasica" or "Celesa". It lists both in different places.

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I've been trying to figure this one out for a while now. What I've got so far is “Potamogeton hybridum varietas natantum”, “in stagni Carolinae”, “schedulo in herb. Michaux, musei regdi”, "A v. Chamisso" (Adelbert von Chamisso). I can't figure out the word I've got as "regdi"... do you think I transcribed it correctly? I can't figure out what Latin word it should be.

Thanks so much for your help!

In Latin class today, I got back a test on which I got a 72. Are there any tips or tricks on how to translate Latin better, particularly Latin poems written by the likes of Ovid.

I tried LLPSI and got hard stuck on chapter 6. I was never able to do the pensa, either in LLPSI itself or in the Exercitia, and I didn't understand what was being said in the neumann companion. I bought multiple other books too, like Latin Demystified, in which I couldn't do the quizzes no matter how many times I read and re-read. I bought english grammar for learners of latin because I thought maybe my english understanding of grammar was the problem, and it was too confusing, I would read an entire page and my mind would be blank.

I've read and watched videos during a period of three months hours upon hours of stuff and I still can hardly tell you the first thing about how latin grammar works. I just can't do it. My brain can't process it. It goes in and leaves without sticking or even comprehending. I've read about what a direct object is dozens or maybe hundreds of times and I still can't tell you what it is. I'm currently halfway through an online class and I'm completely lost and am too embarrassed to ask the stupidest questions possible because I know the teacher already went over it and I just didn't comprehend it.

Is it this hard for everybody or am I dumber than I possibly could have imagined? I dropped out of school, I've never been a smart person. But this is the hardest thing I've ever done and I think it's impossible for me.