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Hello everybody, It's nice to have found this place. I'm starting the study of latin because I intend to sign up in september at an university course that is heavily based on it. I will also need to study greek, but I guess I better do one thing at a time. That's it for my introduction, now I'm heading to the latin forum to ask a question...

Hi fellow Latin enthusiasts,

I've a short grammar question. As Qua is in the name of and Securitas, Securitatis is security, I'm a bit confused how to join those two words. My intended phrase is "in the name of security", I was thinking along the lines of Qua Securitatem. Can you please help me out with grammar clarification on the matter ?

Thank you in advance

Asmodeus

Hello all,
after a decade of neglecting latin ( my school days were a long time ago ) I've decided to do some refreshing and start my studies again. I'm a bit rusty, but it's slowly coming back. It's nice to share with fellow students of the ancient languages, look forward to good times on forum.

Asmodeus

Salvete!

I added the Latin Springboard to my homepage. It is a html-page which displays lists of links to reference works written in Latin or about Roman (and Greek) antiquities. Each link points to a random page inside of the respective work (or site). By refreshing the page new random links are generated. The purpose is to give access to a random bit of information either in Latin or about Roman (and Greek) antiquities, for ...

In reading this page https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BKACAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=ja&pg=GBS.PR34
I came across a word alphitomantis (in this page, the form is alphitomanteis).
This means the one who divines from barley meal.
And the word alphiton means barley-groats, esp. used to sprinkle over the sacrificial victim.

Now, I would like to ask what's this divination.
And about its purpose.
Is it connected with Demeter ?

I wrote this to practice result clauses using "ὡστε". Historical accuracy was a very secondary consideration though I don't think there are any out and out errors. Grammatical accuracy was my main priority though I suspect there may be still quite a few out and out errors in that respect.

Pyrhhic war result practice

τοσαυτας χωρας εν Ἰταλιᾳ επεκρατησαν Ρωμαιοι ὡστε πολυς φοβος εν τω ταραντι ην.
οι του Ταραντος πολιται ουτω εφοβουντο ὡστε επεμψαν ...

Dear Textkit Community:

Today is my first day on the site as a registered member but I first found the site about a year ago with the great free downloads. But I have yet to really immerse myself in either Greek or Latin: I start and stop, and start and stop. I have a *huge* desire to learn both Greek and Latin but I do not have a regular plan.

Right now I am studying ...

χαίρετε.

I have to say that I am a little stumped by this passage in the Phaedo: (Cebes has just asked Socrates what he should tell Evenus when he asks again about why Socrates has been composing verse)

λέγε τοίνυν, ἔφη, αὐτῷ, ὦ Κέβης, τἀληθῆ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐκείνῳ βουλόμενος οὐδὲ τοῖς ποιήμασιν αὐτοῦ ἀντίτεχνος εἶναι ἐποίησα ταῦτα—ᾔδη γὰρ ὡς οὐ ῥᾴδιον εἴη—ἀλλ᾽ ἐνυπνίων τινῶν ἀποπειρώμενος τί λέγει, καὶ ἀφοσιούμενος εἰ ἄρα πολλάκις ταύτην τὴν μουσικήν ...

Does anybody use or is anybody familiar with Dirk Panhuis' Latin Grammar. I myself have been a devoted fan of Allen & Greenough since my undergraduate days, but, after a quick look through, I think that Panhuis has something special going for it.

The focus seems to be on linguistics and Panhuis pays particular attention to "The Sentence and Its Parts" and word order/Textlinguistics (as it's called in the book). Word order, I think, is ...

Hi all,

I'm a new member and am revisiting Classical Latin after a long hiatus...

Textkit is a great place! Thank you for all the amazing resources available here. :)

truks