good blog site for Latin study

Hi. :smiley:

Could someone recommend me a blog site that is for me?

There I want to post my translations and word lists (the meanings of the word I looked up in the dictionary, mainly Lewis & Short, with a lot of translations of example sentences, which makes a huge vocabulary list) and sometimes tips from Gildersleeve I used in translation.

The authors of the books are Tertullianus and Augustinus. I am interested in philosophical works, so I can try Cicero and others too.

But the pace of my work is very slow, so I keep engaged in the same work very long. Because, I am now with a really autistic symptom, a tendency to consult dictionary too much, very scrupulously reading a lot of examples, writing down or inputting everything I looked up.

But I suppose my elaborate vocabulary list and translation (I am very good at translation) would help a lot to some Latin students.

I’m sorry, I 'm not sure I understand. Are you asking where you can get a blog?

Tumblr is free, and easy to use.

Blogger is a Google service, that I never personally used. free

Wordpress is also great, if you want to host something yourself.

Hi.


I mean I want to use such a blog site as many students of Latin might see my blog there (it will be such a blog as described above).

I think any standard blogging website should be well suited for your needs, if you are just looking to post relevant information from your studies. I can’t think of a blog that would be more or less suited to writing about Latin.

I’ve previously used blogger.com and wordpress.com for occasional blogging.

The information and study notes you described sound interesting. You can help others discover your information by linking to your posts during relevant discussions here and on other Latin forums. If you do a lot of work with a certain author or topic, like medieval scholastics, your blog should be of immediate interest to anyone else studying those topics.

Thank you, thesaurus.

What I am doing is like this. If you like, please try looking over it.



Tertullianus
De Aniuma Ch.27 Sec.4

Title : Like our mean flesh, our holy soul, too, generates at the moment of sexual intercourse, and you should not be ashamed of this fact


[4] Immo si tempora seminum diuidentur, et materiae diuersae habebuntur ex distantia temporam. +++++ In addition, if the moment of sowing the seed of flesh and the moment of sowing the seed of soul are divided, then by the distance of those moments, there will be different oopotunity of birth for each (flesh and soul). (But such an inference is not allowed.) +++++ Nam etsi duas species confitebimur seminis, corporalem et animalem, indiscretas tamen uindicamus et hoc modo contemporales eiusdemque momenti. +++++++ For, even if we concede that there are two kinds of seed, one for the flesh, one for the soul, nevertheless we declare that they are undivided (or, indivisible) and so are in a synchronized (synchronous) existence. ++++++++ Ne itaque pudeat necessariae interpretationis. ++++++ So don’t feel ashamed to make an inevitable conclusion. +++++++ Natura ueneranda est, non erubescenda. ++++++ Nature is to be revered, not to be ashamed of. +++++++ Concubitum libido, non condicio foedauit. ++++++ What defiles the sexual intercouse is the lust, not the wedding. (* So you don’t have to feel ashamed of the fact that our holy soul, like our mean flesh, generates at the moment of sexual intercourse.) ++++++ Excessus, non status est impudicus, siquidem benedictus status apud deum: crescite et in multitudinem proficite, excessus uero maledictus, adulteria et stupra et lupanaria. +++++++ What is lewd is to lose self-control in sexual intercourse, not the wedding. The wedding is blessed before God : Be Born, And Grow Into A Great Number. But on the other hand, to lose self-cntrol in sexual intercourse is cursed as an adultery, shameful lewdness, and whoredom.



VOCABULARY

+immo : on the contrary, or rather (to contradict what precedes, or, to qualify, explain, extend, define what precedes)
+dividentur : dividere
+meteria : material of which anything is composed, like timber and stone for building, ingredients for food / sauce, occasion, cause, opportunityā€¦ā€œthe ruler’s indulgence seeks for an opportunity for itselfā€ā€“ā€œgive opportunities and causes to be laughed atā€ā€“ā€œthe letter gave me a sauce for a sermonā€ā€“ā€œwhy does he envy her opportunity for glory?ā€ā€“ā€œan opportunity for a crimeā€ā€“ā€œan opportunity to give kind serviceā€ā€“ā€œhe gave a cause to ill-reputationā€ / stock, race, breed / natural ability, natural quality, disposition, nature, natural character@@@
+diverto : to turn in different ways, to part, to be separated, to turn aside
+diversus : turned in different directions, apart, separate, distant / set against each other, contrary, opposite, conflicting / different, diverse / unlike, dissimilar / inimically opposed, hostile
+distantia : distance, remoteness / difference, diversity
+temporam : a typo of temporum



+nam : for, because (giving a reason or a ground of proof or an evidential fact)
+confiteor : (+acc.) (acc.+acc.) (+acc.+inf.) : to acknowledge, to confess, to own (like ā€œagnoscereā€ and ā€œvindicareā€ above), to avow, to concede@@@, to allow…according to L&S, confiteor implies an unwilling change of conviction, an acknowledgement of what one previously denied or doubted. ā€œfateorā€ is a simple acknowledgement. ā€œprofiteorā€ is a willing, voluntary acknowledgement. / to show, to make known
+species : kind, sort, class
+indiscretus : unseparated, undivided, closely connected, closely united / undistinguished, without distinction, alike, undistinguishable
+vindicare : to claim as one’s own (there is no definition that exactly fits to this context in the L&S dictionary, but in a medieval Latin dictionary ā€œNiermeyerā€, there are fitting definitions as follows) to acknowledge as true, to affirm / to vouch for, to attest, to give witness, evidence, proof, guarantee to / to acknowledge officially, to canonize
+contemporalis : contemporary
+contemporare : to be at the same time, to be contemporary
+momentum : a quick lapse of time, a short time, a moment (as second or minute, or as hour, according to the context)



+itaque : (of sequence) and so / (of logical sequence) accordingly, therefore, for that reason / (adding an example) ā€œa philosopher doesn’t have to be acquainted with literature. <> our authorities headhunted Cincinnatus as our leader though he had been a farmerā€ --ā€œthe first elements are simple, <> the air and the fire and the water and the earth are the firstā€
+pudet : to be ashamed / to make…ashamed / (impersonal) pudet aliquem alicujus…one feels ashamed of…
+necessarius : unavoidable, inevitable, compelled, necessary, needed
+interpretor : to explain, to expound, to translate, to interpret / to recognize, to understand, to comprehend, to infer, to conclude / to decide, to determine
+interpres, -pretis : an agent between two parties, a broker, negotiator, interpretor / (in general) explainer, translator ā€œan explainer of heavens = astronomerā€ā€“ā€œan explainer of omens = soothsayerā€ā€“ā€œan explainer of foreign books = translatorā€



+veneror, veneratus : to reverence with religious awe, to worship / (gods as objects) / (men or things as objects, reverence in general sense) to honor, to reverence, to consider highly of
+erubescere : to grow red, to become red / to redden or blush with shame (intransitive, or transitive with acc.)



+concubitus, -tus : lying together / sex, sexual intercourse, copulation
+libido, -dinis : desire, longing, inclination, eagerness for pleasure or actionā€“ā€œa desire to listen to orationā€ā€“of urination–of vomitingā€“ā€œby good stimulations joy and desire occur; by present goods joy, by future goods desireā€ā€“ā€œdisire to demolish the cityā€ / (in bad sense) unlawful or inordinate desire, passion, caprice, wantonness / sexual desire, lust
+condicio : condition, situation, circumstance -------- / (of man) ā€œunstable and unfortunate condition of slavesā€ā€¦ā€œthe situation for witnesses is, that when they denied they are not believed, but when they affirmed they are believedā€ā€¦ā€œthe condition of life is better in old age than in adolescenseā€ / (of things) these things generate under the same condition"ā€¦ā€œthe condition of cropsā€ā€¦ā€œthe condition (quality) of waterā€ā€¦
+condicio : agreement, condition, terms…of peace, etc. / marriage…(also in bad sense, an illicit, illegal love affair) / a person married, or, an illicit, illegal lover
+foedare : to make foul, filthy, hideous, to pollute, to defile, to deform, to disfigure / (physically) / (mentally) to disgrace, to dishonor


+excessus, -sus : a going out, departure / a leaving of one’s mental power, losing one’s self…Greek ā€œekstasisā€
+status : condition, state, position, situation, circumstance --------- 1. one’s social position (rank, occupation, reputation, role, personal character) / @@@ 2. state of mind in respect of happiness and unhappinessā€¦ā€œstate of feeling painā€ā€¦ā€œour state of mind is now sorrowfulā€ā€¦ā€œthe state of mind gets worse by hearing ofā€¦ā€ā€¦ā€œa happy state of mindā€ā€¦ā€œthat voice shows his soul’s magnified and prosperous stateā€ā€¦ā€œblessed stateā€ / 3. state of bodyā€¦ā€œundiseased stateā€ā€¦ā€œdrunken stateā€ / 4. situation, circumstanceā€¦ā€œconsidering the present circumstanceā€¦ā€ā€¦ā€œprepare oneself for every situation of lifeā€ā€¦ā€œtell me how their arrival was, how the situation was thereā€ā€¦ā€œit is unbearable if the life’s conditions changeā€ / 5. state, condition of natureā€¦ā€œmild condition of airā€ā€¦ā€œthe condition of the sky (it’s about to rain)ā€ā€¦ā€œthe state of the whole natural worldā€
+status : a way of bearing one’s body, a mode of holding one’s body, posture (but there are only the examples of ā€œstanding postureā€ in L&S dictionary…cf. stare, to stand) / external appearance, manners, style, outfitā€¦ā€œassume the outward appearance of a celebrity, as well as due behaviorā€ā€¦ā€œhe started to wear these eccentric hat and boots, and went on in this appearance for 2 yearsā€
+impudicus : shameless / unchaste, adulterous, immodest, lewd, filthy in sexual moral --ā€œunchaste womenā€ā€“ā€œthe unchaste finger (=the middle finger)ā€ā€“ā€œthe man did an immodest thing to meā€
+benedico : to speak welll of, praise, commend, approve / (Deum) to bless, praise, adore / (hominem, or, aliquem rem) to bless, consecrate, sanctify, hallow, praise as holy
+apud : in the presence of…, before… (in the presence of whom anything—for example, a discussion—is done or takes place) (=coram) / (of judgement) in the view of…, in the opinion of…, in the judgement of…, forā€¦ā€“ā€œthe meaning is clear before (in the sight of) everyoneā€ā€“ā€œthe temple was precious for (in the sight of) Greeksā€ā€“ā€œhe was unblameble in the sight of Godā€
+crescite et in maltitudinem proficite : probably God’s word in bible
+cresco : (of things previously not in existence) to come into being, to arise, to be born, to spring / (of things already in existence) to enlarge in size, to grow, to thrive / to increase in number / to grow more distinct in honor
+proficio : to go forward, to make progress, to advance / (in physical sense, in space) / (in abstract sense) --ā€œprogress in philosophyā€ā€“ā€œin healthā€ / @@@to grow and advance in some quality --ā€œgrow in badness = become worseā€ā€“ā€œgrow in valueā€ / to be useful, to be serviceableā€“ā€œwriting skill is very useful forā€¦ā€ā€“ā€œthis herb is serviceable for headacheā€
+vero : truly, surely, certainly / @@@a strongly adversative particleā€¦ā€œbutā€, ā€œbut indeedā€ā€¦always placed after a word
+maledico : to speak ill of, revile, slander / to curse
+adulterium : adultery, unlawful sexual relation between persons who are already married / act or thing immodest in sexual moral
+stuprum : defilement / dishonor, shame caused by unchastity
+lupanar, gen. lupanaris, abl. lupanari : house of ill repute, whorehouse
+lupanaris, -are : (adj.) of or belonging to or characteristic of lewd women or whores

Very interesting and thorough work! I admire your endurance.

If you were to post this on a blog somewhere, I’d advise experimenting with the formatting to make it as reader-friendly as possible. Maybe you could split the reading up line by line and accompany it with the apparatus you’ve created.

If you have the time or inclination, you could consider putting your finished products into PDF format. They would then form a kind of annotated reading edition of your texts.

Where are you drawing your source text from? I noticed that you faithfully record and then compensate for a typo (ā€œtemporamā€).

Thank you for complimenting. I have wanted it from someone.

Oh, the idea of PDF file is good. My vocabulary list is too large, and I didn’t know if a long long series of such work is posssible on a borrowed website (=blog) or on paper (I sometimes think about publishing my vocabulary list plus translation in a far remote future).


The text I copied from this site, named The Tertullian Project.
http://www.tertullian.org/
http://www.tertullian.org/latin/de_anima.htm