Salve! I'm Lydia

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Salve! I'm Lydia

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Hello Latin enthusiasts!

I am very excited to join this community! I have taken Latin for a few years in high school and was always fascinated by both the language and the rich history of the Roman Empire. I work as a software engineer and am interested in digital humanities. A few months ago, I developed a Latin dictionary using Python. Here is the link to my project: https://github.com/lydialarina/Latin-Dictionary/

I hope to deepen my understanding in the language after a long break. Previously, I have read the entire "Familia Romana" and I think it's now time to challenge myself within harder texts. Also, I'm not relinquishing the hope of finding friends on this platform to share my hobbies with. It is incredibly difficult to meet someone passionate about Latin and Roman/Byzantine history in real life :cry:

Let me know if anyone would like to chat and find one another on social media platforms!

P. S. In addition to English, I also speak Russian, Ukrainian, and am in the process of learning French.
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Welcome to Textkit, Lydia!

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Hi Lydia,

I am also a programmer :)
and I also have plan to develop my own dictionaries (or dictionary viewer).

What format did you use to develop your dictionary in Python?
Did you use "Slob"?
I know about it from here: https://latin-dict.github.io/docs/docs.html

And is your dictionary open source?
Do you have a github account that I can follow?
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Hello Lydia!

Like you I love Latin and Roman History of any era and you are right it is hard to find many people with these interests ( except maybe here on Textkit :D )

Please feel free to message me on DM here on Textkit and we can get in touch and chat about all things Roman and Latin!

Look forward to hearing from you :D .

Cheers,
Villanelle

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I tried to message you privately, but because I just joined, I can't use this feature yet. So, I will just list my info here:

Skype: Lydia Larina live:.cid.279d3fcd12cd8f95
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lydialarina8/#

I don't really post anything on Instagram, but rather use it to follow others, but feel free to message me whether on Instagram or Skype!

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@xieyuheng
Same thing, I can't message you privately because I am a new user. I posted my Skype and Instagram info in one of the replies and will add my GitHub account later today. I have to move the project to my new account.

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I'm very interested in your Latin dictionary too, and would be happy to follow your GitHub account.
Two verses he could recollect // Of the Æneid, but incorrect.

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Thank you! Yes, I added the link to my intro message.

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Lydia wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:12 am Thank you! Yes, I added the link to my intro message.
Gratias tibi ago Lydia!

I didn't know CLTK incorporated CollatinusDecliner, it's very good news.

Last time when I checked CLTK (several years ago), their lemmatizer was unsatisfactory in application to verbs. (It was an incomplete port of Whitaker Words evidently.) So, timuit were resolved to timui rather than timeo.
Two verses he could recollect // Of the Æneid, but incorrect.

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Hello Lydia!
Lydia wrote: Thu Jun 29, 2023 5:16 pm I hope to deepen my understanding in the language after a long break. Previously, I have read the entire "Familia Romana" and I think it's now time to challenge myself within harder texts.
You should try going through Rōma Aeterna, the second book in the LLPSI series. Most of it is an introduction to Roman historians (e.g., Livy, Sallust, Eutropius) but there is some poetry in there too, and a good bit of Cicero. It is much harder than Familia Rōmāna but very little new grammar is introduced so it feels more like practice with the real Roman classics. You can treat it just like a casual reader or (as I did) like a second textbook, employing the Companion, Pensa, and Exercitia. The LLPSI series has some other readers you may find interesting as well.

If you want to read things apart from the LLPSI series, I highly recommend getting dual-language editions of the classics, especially the Loeb Classical Library books, which not only contains the Latin-English (or Greek-English) text but also gives you introductions and extra context.

I'm on Cap. LII of Rōma Aeterna and I'm finding that I really like Sallust. If you are looking for someone more difficult than Caesar, yet less monstrous as Livy, Sallust is great. The Bellum Iugurthīnum is both interesting and not to difficult to read. However, if you are just moving out of Familia Rōmāna then you are going to need something easier than Sallust, whom I would classify as more intermediate. Something gentle and post-Familia Rōmāna level would be the Vulgate New Testament, like one of the Gospels. These are very enriching and beautiful reads, and the Latin is very easy. Or alternatively you could start reading some Caesar, such as his Comentariī Dē Bellō Gallicō.

As for poetry, you can't go wrong with Ovid's Metamorphoses.

There is a lot out there and the classics are a real journey!
Miserēre meī, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam; et secundum multitūdinem miserātiōnum tuārum, dēlē inīquitātem meam. Amplius lavā mē ab inīquitāte meā, et ā peccātō meō mundā mē.

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Thank you so much for these reply! Right now, I'm trying to read Cornelius Nepos, but if that will prove to be too difficult, I will do Roma Aeterna. Is Sallust your favorite so far?

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Thank you so much for these reply! Right now, I'm trying to read Cornelius Nepos, but if that will prove to be too difficult, I will do Roma Aeterna. Is Sallust your favorite so far?

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Sallust is probably my favorite historian for now, but I am pretty knew to reading the classics and I have actually only read Livy, Caesar, Sallust, and Eutropius (as far as historians go). Sallust isn't so choppy as Caesar but he's not as long and flowery as Livy. I haven't tried out other kinds of prose, though, like speeches/essays/letters.

If you do read Rōma Aeterna (which I would recommend if you find yourself struggling with Roman authors), there is a chapter of Nepos' biography of Hannibal (slightly abridged but authentic). I didn't find him difficult--probably as hard as Sallust, but I can't really tell.
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What are you reading right now? I tried reading Sallust's work on Caitline conspiracy back in high school, but it was too challenging.

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Villanelle wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:02 am Hello Lydia!

Like you I love Latin and Roman History of any era and you are right it is hard to find many people with these interests ( except maybe here on Textkit :D )

Please feel free to message me on DM here on Textkit and we can get in touch and chat about all things Roman and Latin!

Look forward to hearing from you :D .

Cheers,
Definitely join StackExchange Latin's group, though the chit-chat stuff happens in the chatroom, whereas the main site is more for Q&A.

Welcome, Lydia, and nice program! Glad to see more and more interested in both coding and classics.

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Chris Weimer wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:17 pm
Villanelle wrote: Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:02 am Hello Lydia!

Like you I love Latin and Roman History of any era and you are right it is hard to find many people with these interests ( except maybe here on Textkit :D )

Please feel free to message me on DM here on Textkit and we can get in touch and chat about all things Roman and Latin!

Look forward to hearing from you :D .

Cheers,
Definitely join StackExchange Latin's group, though the chit-chat stuff happens in the chatroom, whereas the main site is more for Q&A.

Welcome, Lydia, and nice program! Glad to see more and more interested in both coding and classics.
Thanks for the recommendation Chris. I will definitely take a look at this site :)

Cheers.
Villanelle

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Salve, Lydia!

Получил ваше сообщение, но ответить на него пока не могу почему-то. Можем здесь пообщаться.

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Да, все в порядке. Я уже получила Ваше личное сообщение, надеюсь что мой ответ переслался. Если нет, то можно в этом thread пока вести переписку.

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salve!Lydia. I have also the passion on the latin and the history of Rome which i am studying!

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