Translation Help (First Greek Book)

Greek Learning Greek
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page 58. paragraph 236. question 4.
[size=134]ταῦτα περὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς ἄγγελοι παρὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἔλεξαν Κύγτ;/ρῳ πρὸ τῆς μάχης.[/size]

I’m having trouble translating this. I hope what I’m writing makes sense.

Here’s an attempt:
“From around the army, these messengers from the brother spoke to Cyrus before the battle.”

Any help appreciated. I’d like to know if I’m even close. :blush:

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The messengers said these things about the army from his brother to Cyrus before the battle.

meaning that this information is from Cyrus’ brother.

tauta is these things acc. pl.

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May we say “Messengers from his brother said these things to Cyrus about the army before the battle” ?

4

Yes, lol, I’m just used my teacher telling me to try and leave each word in the position it’s in in Greek :unamused: . In German that works out a little better than in English… :stuck_out_tongue:

Actually my teacher would have demanded something like this: These things about the army the messenger from his brother said to Cyrus before the battle.
:confused: It seems he’s right again, though. I should have translated it like he always wants me to, sounds better than what I did at first, lol.

5

Ah…

I was confused as to what [size=134]ταῦτα[/size] was referring. I also assumed that [size=134]περὶ[/size] referred to location, I don’t know why; it states right in the vocabulary that with genitive it means “about, concerning”. I need to be more observant…

Thanks for the help. :sunglasses: