Did I do this right?

Greek Learning Greek
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I just wanted to know if I did this English-to-Greek translation correctly.

“I happened to hear the speakers asking the messengers about the horsement being sent into this land.”

Τυγχάνω ἀκούων τῶν πε?ὶ τῶν εἰς τήνδε τήν χώ?ᾱν πεμπομένων ἱππεύων τοὺς ἀγγέλους ??ωτώντων ῥητό?ων.

Thanks.

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If it is exactly as you typed it no


Τυγχάνω ἀκούων τῶν πε?ὶ τῶν εἰς τήνδε τήν χώ?ᾱν πεμπομένων ἱππεύων τοὺς ἀγγέλους ??ωτώντων ῥητό?ων.

It’s a bit strange to tell you the truth but here’s my take
I happened to hear, while(?) I was riding, the speakers asking the messangers about those sent in this here lan.

Unless I am too tired to think straigh ἱππεύων is in the nominative, singular. It seems out of place though if I am right. I mean its meaning of “horseman” doesn’t seem to fit here.

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Yeah, I typed it wrong. I had it as ἰππέων on my paper, the genitive plural. I put Τυγχάνω ἀκούων to mean “I happened to hear,” but my book says that ἀκούω takes a genitive of person heard, so I put the object of ἀκούω, τῶν ??ωτώντων ῥητό?ων, in the genitive. The πε?ὶ τῶν πεμπομένων ἱππεύων is to be about what they’re asking, and τοὺς ἀγγέλους to whom they ask it. Also, why did you translate “εἰς τήνδε τήν χώ?ᾱν” as “in this here land”? I thought the article always preceded a demonstrative, which would render it as “into this land.”

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Just a few comments:

You translated “happened” as a present.

I think the way you have έ?ωτώντων modifying ῥητό?ων means it’s attributive so the meaning would be “…to hear the speakers who were asking…”, and you need to take the participle out from between τῶν ῥητό?ων to get the “…to hear the speakers asking…” meaning (a slight difference, I know).

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Missed the present thingy! :blush:

Modus maybe nitpicking but he is right :smiley:

As to my translation: I wanted to translate τησδε a bit more precisely. I think I’d go with the preposition έν (don’t expect breathing marks; I am only up 'cause my stomach’s too upset :slight_smile: for “into”