amelung

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by amelung 19d ago
The Greek state didnʼt just need to get rid of the huge amount of old debts (what a default would have been good for) and was not interested in the currency in itself (keeping the euro outside the euro zone) but needed a lot of more money:
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by amelung 2mo ago
On a constructive note, Wilson left not unattested how Homer should be performed in her view, by herself – link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bfDgXqd54CU – and who Americaʼs Homer may be, namely Tracy Chapman – link:
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by amelung 5mo ago
This ‑e is an adverb ending. The belonging adjective is «latinus» ‹Latin›.
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by amelung 5mo ago
> PEUSIS PAN GAR SEEMS I think the Greek doesn't read «ΠΕΥΣΗ ΠΑΝ ΓΑΡ» but «ΠΕΥΣΗΙ ΠΑΝ ΓΑΡ» with «Ι», and «ΠΕΥΣΗΙ» = «πευσῃ» could be the 2nd sg. of the future of «πυνθάνομαι» ‹learn›. «ΠΑΝ» would be ‹all, every(thing)›, «ΓΑΡ» ‹namel
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by amelung 5mo ago
Respect! even if I can't agree with every detail, e.g. «ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥΤΩ» would require the «Υ» and the «Τ» to be quite different from the «Υ»s and «Τ»s in clearer cases, e.g. in the «ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑ ΤΟΥΤΟΥ» we both read as such. So I would stick to
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by amelung 5mo ago
I think the image shown at the top right is the entire text that was discovered: because if you count all the lines (including even the ones where no mortal can see actual letters), you get 30. I admire the experts who can make sense out of
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by amelung 6mo ago
> is allowed to be long or even determined to be long? The descriptions of the Alcaic strophe I found specify the first syllables of the first three verses as anceps but the first syllable of the fourth as long. Skimming the other odes i
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by amelung 6mo ago
Yes, de.co:.rust . Thanks for reminding me, I never knew or had completely forgotten.
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by amelung 7mo ago
Metrum Alcaicum: dul.cet.de.co:.rest.|pro:.pa.tri.a:.mo.ri: mor.set.fu.ga:.cem.|per.se.qui.tur.vi.rum nec.par.ci.tin.bel.li:s.iu.ven.tae po:pli.ti.bus.ti.mi.do:.que.ter.go (Not sure about the first syllable of "poplitibus&