| Re: Help with translation into Latin please.
The great thing about Latin is that it is so heavily inflected that word order is not that important. There were/are certain conventions (Giovanna isolated one in her Voyage Around The Genitive), but ultimately the meaning of a Latin sentence should be the same irrespective of word order. This is something you can't do with a non-inflected language like English - "Dog Beware!" or "Beware Dog!" actually mean two different things, but the Latin version - "Cave Canem" or "Canem Cave" actually means the same thing whichever way the words are expressed.
..or at least so our old Classics teacher never tired of telling us (and he should know, as he fought at Lake Trasimene). He also had a joke:-
A Greek man of letters goes into a tailors shop with a pair of torn trousers, which he hands to the tailor.
"Euripides?" says the tailor.
"Yes", replies the man. "Eumenides".
Regards,
Peter |