Alina’s Comments (group member since Jan 03, 2018)

Alina’s comments from the Elementary Latin Reading Group group.

I'm back! After a month and a half of super intense Latin study, I am more or less able to read the first paragraph of Holberg. Woohoo!

Below is my translation (hidden to avoid spoilers):

(view spoiler)[Because it arrived to our ears, by certain incredulous people that the truth of this story is called into doubt, and accordingly the editor of the underground journey is slandered by means of sinister rumors carried in every direction, we called a council, [to prevent all false accusations](Lat. quo rumoribus mature obviam eatur), to strengthen this new edition by means of testimonies of certain comrades. The witnesses, who we bring along, all are great men with respect to qualification: you see, we know the former two as contemporary to our hero, the remaining lived near the times of Klims, and all together clear men with respect to ancient virtue and faith are accustomed neither to thrust upon fables of the world nor embrace clouds before Jupiter. (hide spoiler)]

Weird translation. But I've learned a lot so far, and my translation makes some sense even if it's not entirely idiomatic. I will get better with practice. Feel free to propose corrections (and help me figure out why the translation in brackets is correct based on the Latin next to it).

Dash wrote: "in the first para. is the "novam hanc editionem testimoniis popularium quorundam munire"..."

I'm having difficulty with that line too. My general understanding is that witnesses (who were virtuous men and close to our hero) were brought forward to dispel rumors. I didn't see indirect statement in the first paragraph, but I may have missed something. I'm stuck on the word "quorundam". Will the new edition include these witnesses' reports then?

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Praefatio Apologetica - January
Caput I - January and February
Caput II - March
Caput III - April and May
Caput IV - June and July
Caput V - August
Caput VI - August
Caput VII - September
Caput VIII - October
Caput IX (Warning: very long section) - November and December

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