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This isn't Roman specific, but Latin in general. I've been working on some Renaissance period translations, and there's a decent amount of animal and botanical names, which can sometimes be really difficult to translate. The Latin dictionaries I have come up short in this area. For example there was one section about cures (sort of like Pliny's Natural History), and it says "if ravens are poisoned by "toxico gallica"..." What the gently caress is that???? French poison? Chicken poison? Doesn't make sense! Any good resources for weird animal and botanical names from the Roman period to the Renaissance?
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mediadave posted:What, if anything, do we know about roman music? Here's a CD I have: http://www.amazon.com/Music-From-Ancient-Rome-vol/dp/B000QQX2AS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1338734882&sr=1-1 This particular CD concentrates on wind instruments. It's pretty dissonant by today's standards. Sometimes I think it sounds creepy, but I like it.
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Jun 3, 2012 15:49
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Here's a nice little PDF showing different Latin pronunciations: http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf Basically it says in Roman Latin, the G is always hard, the C is always pronounced like a K, a V is like a W, a CH is like an emphatic K, PH is a like a P (philosophy=peelosopeea), TH is like an emphatic T. So Venus is like waynoos, or for fun, weenus.
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Jun 10, 2012 07:18
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