the meaning must be "if he again these things promise you will not trust the orator.
However, I would have expected it in the form
ἐάν + subjunctive - future indicative.
but the subjunctive, πιστεύσῃς, is instead in the apodosis. Or maybe things are more flexible that the textbooks have led me to believe?
Finally I can’t make out what tense ὑπίσχηται is (clearly it is a 2nd person singular). It looks as if it might be some kind to perfect though Taylor doesn’t introduce the perfect until the next chapter.
μὴ πιστεύσῃς is the negative imperative. The subjunctive usually replaces the aorist imperative
in negative commands.
I think you’re right that ὑπίσχηται is the 3rd sg. subj. pf. middle-passive from ὑπισχνέομαι.
But what of the iota? It can’t be the augment of the perfect. As far as I can remember, in
the perfect the augment stays throughout.
googletranslate or any other such translation tool should give you accurate translations and you can always PM me (or any other member speaking modern Greek).
Here’s what Google Translate does with the first sentence of Demosthenes’ On the Crown:
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Here’s what Google Translate does with the first sentence of Demosthenes’ On the Crown:
I think Irene meant the Google Translate for Modern Greek, which presumably works as well as those for other common languages. I don’t know what needs to be done to get the program to work for Ancient Greek. I would think that there is a demand for it. My understanding is that the Latin program sort of works okay.
I don’t know why I didn’t think of Google translate. Some of the translations are very odd.
Under voice google gives waist but when a likely answer is middle it isn’t so difficult to suss it out.
In short google gives me just sufficient help to make the site usable.
I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy, exiled by fate, came to the Lavinian shore of Italy, a lot of bragging and on both land sea by the force of the gods on account of the mindful of savage wrath: but he suffered much in war until he could found a city, and bring his gods to Latium, whence the Latin race, the Alban fathers and the high walls of Rome.
Google Translate does a reasonably good job on the beginning of the Aeneid. (“A lot of bragging” doesn’t quite capture the original, though.) It even unpacks the hypallage (or is it anallage?) of altae moenia Romae, transferring the epithet from Rome itself back to the walls where it belongs. But I wonder whether the impeccable translation up to “Italy” was deliberately put into the software on the expectation that precisely this passage would be used as a test.
I was most definitely referring to modern Greek and how to make the linked site easier to use for non MG speakers! It never occurred to me that someone would try to use it for ancient Greek! True, since μέση also means “waist” in MG it’s one of the translations (apparently the main one) but I thought it’d help.
P.S. Now I have to find Demosthenes’ On the Crown!
