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The company I work for announced layoffs in our dept last week, and we lost three people who were longtime employees with lots of experience and knowledge. I thought this quote was appropriate:

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. (Horace)

(Our dept's new theme song is Limp Bizkit's 'Break Stuff' :wink: ... I guess I should mention that we went through round 1 of layoffs 3 ...

I have a simple question, which language do you think is harder, Latin or Greek? I’m sure this has been asked before so please forgive me if so.

I ask because I couldn’t restrain myself anymore the other day and I opened up A Greek Primer and read the first chapter. First there was the beginner’s hurdle: the alphabet. I didn’t have too much trouble with that because I have had past experience, and then ...

hi guys,

just letting u know that, if u listen to the clips on the homeric singing site (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/) and u can't work out what the first line is, it's

a1rxeo Mou~sa ge/lwtoj o4j a)qana/toisin e0nw~rto

in the Realplayer clip, and

a1rxeo Mou~sa ge/lwtoj o4j a)qana/toisin e0tu/xqh

in the MP3 clip. they mean

Begin, Muse, of the laughter that rose among the undying

(stefan just emailed me the variant ...

Hi everyone,

I apologize for any technical problems. Texktit is now running on a new and more powerful server. There were a few glitches with the move, but I think I have them all fixed now.

Please let me know if you're having any problems with the site.

thanks!

jeff

can anyone when recommend a good book that covers all the greek myths? they're starting to confuse me...!

Hello,
Is anyone here interested in learning Sanskrit? I myself would like to do so once I have reached competency in Latin and Greek.

Are there any plans to include Sanskrit books on Textkit?

The Little Sailing

There are also Modern greek translations.
http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/en/t2ten.htm

The number is small but hey are in pretty unicode fonts and NO need to worry about tricky copyright problems and no need to worry about the fonts ;)

Does anyone know a good Latin textbook for 5th and 6th graders? I tutor students who are homeschooled, but usually I work with older (high school age) children whose parents have already chosen a textbook or program. I myself am partial to "Latin for Reading," but I don't think that would work for younger children. Any advice on this would be appreciated.

I am trying to find a Greek text known as the Canon of Polykleitos, and having a very hard time of it! I need it in English translation, but if I could find it in Greek as well that would be brilliant...

To my knowledge, the text only survives through quotation in Galen's writings. I have a reference, although I don't quite know what it means or what to do with it:
Galen, <i>De placitis ...